Reply #66: A draft should only be instituted on military grounds, [View All]

[TheBaldyMan]

Political manuoevreing would be the worst reason to bring one in. How do you explain to the families of the dead, wounded ans maimed that you decided to kill even more people for a political triangulation?

I think your basic premise is absurd and your comments are in very poor taste.

When the Iraq war was still being whipped up I said at the time that if the US was determined to go it alone both Britain and the US would have to introduce at least a limited form of conscription, today it is far too late for any such measure to affect the outcome of the war. To put it simply, the war was lost before it started. The armed forces should return home before they implode.

Any talk of ramping up the conflict is extreme folly. How many more men and women will die before Iraq and Afghanistan return to anything like a peaceful state? When neo-cons talk of widening the confict they betray their abject ignorance of military realities. When anyone suggests that the war should be continued a day longer than it must, they condemn even more people to death.

There have been thousands of Americans killed but there have been hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed. In any terms this brutal war has been illegal from the start and disproportionate in the use of force. It is used as an excuse to erode hard won liberties. There is no valid reason to continue a day longer with the slaughter.