I believe the DRAFT is coming........

[Zenister 0]

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Aw, c'mon! The Samurai studied flower arranging and calligraphy...

not for anything approaching the same reasons.....

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Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

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My take on it, though probably unpopular, is “So what?” The fact of the matter is that our military has been too small for quite awhile, and, short of a draft in times of national need, there is not much that hasn’t been tried to back fill it. One of the harsh realities that the war in Iraq has brought into focus is that we are simply stretched too thin to adequately defend ourselves against multiple attacks in multiple theaters......

Retired Navy Capt. John Byron, in the the July issue of Proceedings of the Naval Institute, writes:
"The war in Iraq is wrecking the Army and the Marine Corps. Troop rotations are in shambles and the all-volunteer force is starting to crumble as we extend combat tours and struggle to get enough boots on the ground.
"We have broken our social contract with the members of the National Guard and the reserve forces, misusing them as substitutes for active forces in an open-ended operation in Iraq that is well short of national emergency. These backup forces are demoralized and headed for the door."

I got this out of an article by Joseph Galloway entitled "How to get out of Iraq: withdraw to the desert".

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