Reply #88: US foreign policy [View All]

[jenm]

has become over dependent on the military. I agree with Clark that the US has no stomach for traditional empire, both among its citizens and within its volunteer army. I don't think there will be a draft, we don't need tons of infantry, we can sit in our air conditioned military complexes and push buttons and blow away all the bad guys we want.

If you look at how the Bushies pushed us into this Iraq situation, you have to at least consider the possibility that things over there are going pretty much the way they figured it would. Before the public would accept a draft without tremendous political repercussions, there'd have to be another Reichstag, I mean 911, I mean... oh well, you get my drift.

Anybody that welcomes a draft is really trusting if you ask me. Like deferments are going to go away for the more privileged childen among us. When did the world become fair?

I have two sons myself, 19 and 12.