Don't worry, it will be small at first.
"The shortfalls have led to speculation that the government might be forced to reinstitute the draft. There is little support for that in Congress, and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has ruled it out, saying the all-volunteer force has proven the wisdom of discontinuing the draft in 1973."
That phrase "in response to changing market conditions," is militarism - as distinct from maintaing an army of national defense - and the most insidious of all national subcultures. In this view, the military is a good, an end in itself in service to the powerful, the proper organization of society, and the supply of young men and women for battle fodder is a market condition: Consumption and supply. Goods and services. Death and destruction as manageable costs rather than gaping horrors.
ReplyDeleteIn WWII, they would at least have been "our boys," and now our boys and girls -which are coming home dead two and three a day because this administration never met a fact it didn't dismiss.
Robert McNamara called. He'd like his war back.
And thanks to these know-nothing clowns we're smack back in Johnson's dilemna - if we stay people die, if we leave, people die.