Now that liberals have destroyed the moral of the troops are they going to bring back the draft?

Question

I have been talk to my big brother in who came back Afghanistan he has also served in twice Iraq and he feels like America stabbed the troops in the back and that the media like CNN are rooting against them by ignoring all the good things they do and make them out to be the evils one in this war what will happen when people like my brother are no longer will to serve.?

Answer 1

It is interesting how some of the people who responded are going to try to blame President Bush for the fact that the troops feel that they have been stabbed in the back by the media and the Democratic party.

Maybe the Democratic party needs to admit that the troops do not trust them and come up with a way to rebuild their credibility?

IMO the most telling comment about the election is the fact that Al Queda sees a Democrat victory as good for their goals.

Answer 2

I think we OUGHT to have a draft or some form of compulsory national service. It would not have to be military. All the " good things" we do there won't ammount to much in the end in IRAQ.
We stabbed the army in Afghanistan in the back when we invaded another country for no good reason. I see Iraq and the war against the Taliban as different things... but we seem to have mismanaged the campaigns in both.

Answer 3

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If, by liberals you mean the plurality of Americans that voted in a free and fair election, and elected democrats, then I don't think that would destroy the morale of troops. Was there some liberal statement that wanted to stab Americans in the back? From what I have read, the democrats are trying to bring the troops home.

The US Military has millions of active and reserve forces. Placed in all parts of the world. Your brother, after his honorable time in Afghanistan, will be able to be deployed to a different part of the world, I have no doubt.

Answer 4

Garbage. I know plenty of people in Iraq, and most don't give a rats *** how America voted. They are more concerned with living day to day. However, I do know at least three that voted a straight Democratic ticket.

The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that your brother does not exist. Just another in a long line of Republicans making up stuff to try to make a point. However, on the off chance he is real, tell him not to re-up. The army needs people that are there to protect and defend the USA, not the GOP.

Answer 5

Well like you he speaking from his heart not from the facts:


Be All You Can Be -- The Navy Steps Up to the Army's Challenge


Reference:

[1] Gregory L. Vistica, "A Very Few Good Men: The Navy tries to bulk up its thinning ranks," Newsweek, February 15, 1999.

It is becoming clear that the All-Volunteer Military is in deep trouble. The Navy is about take on the Army in the "Be All You Can Be" Advertising War.

The interrelated readiness problems of retaining a highly-motivated, well-trained, patriotic people while they are being overworked to simply maintain aging, complex, high-cost weapons are mounting daily. Ironically, overworked people are voting with their feet while spending for Operations and Maintenance, when viewed on a per unit basis (O&M dollars per plane, ship, or maneuver battalion), is higher today than it was at the peak of the Reagan spendup, even after one removes the effects of inflation.

The answer proposed by the Pentagon and Congress is to fix these problems by throwing even more money at readiness and retention. But we have seen that the corrupt bookkeeping system makes it impossible to determine the detailed financial cause and effect relations driving the meltdown [see Comment #169], and therefore, there can be no rational basis for assuming a spasmodic spending spree will fix matters. Twenty-five years of studying such problems has convinced me that more money spent the same way will set the stage for worse problems in the future by reinforcing the pathological behavior that is created today's problems..

The referenced report by Gregory Vistica is a typical example of how short-sighted, band aide fixes aimed at protecting the cold war status are setting the stage for long-term problems—in this case a Navy with core values more akin to those of self-indulgent mercenaries.

Vistica reports that the Navy intends to fix its shortfall of 22,000 vacancies in the fleet by reducing educational and physical fitness standards, offering critical skills re-enlistment bonuses of up to $45,000, lobbying for a 10% across-the-board pay raise (which means admirals get the largest raise of al, even though there is not retention problem for admirals), increased creature comforts (including, ironically, more shipboard email, even though email discussions about readiness problems are being discouraged by the leadership—see Comments #221 & 233), all glued together by a brand new $70 million advertising blitz, including TV commercials that will portray a cool high-tech "lifestyle" and the idea that life in the Navy is fun.

If this report correct, what does this personnel retention program tell its people about the Navy's core values? Standards are merely opportunistic management devices. Self-interest is more important that self-sacrifice. Being cool and having fun is more important than patriotism.

A warfighting force holding these values will crack under the stress of hard combat, like that experienced in Mogadishu or Iron Bottom Sound off Guadalcanal.

With thinking like this at the upper levels, it is not too difficult to see why the Defense Department produces Armed Forces Day Posters that hold soldiers, sailors, and airmen (male or female) in contempt by celebrating weapons and ignoring people.

Maybe contempt of the troops is a core value held by the courtiers of Versailles on the Potomac. But of course, that would have nothing to do with why people are voting with their feet.

Keep in mind this is the Navy who like the Air Force does little fightening but still cannot get and keep their numbers up, they admit they keep lowering the standards. In Nam overall the average person was equal to an 11 th grader, now it is the ninth grade. All of the acts (rapes, shootrings) are being done by these whose enterance requirements were lowered so much that we got and are getting the bottom of the barrell.

Just think we can prove the blood of these 2900 boys and girls are on the hands of Rush, Hannity and you.

God Bless You and The Southern People.

Answer 6

Here comes the liberals/media lost Iraq, Afghanistan lie. Didn't take em long

Republicans insufferable in victory, vile in defeat.

Answer 7

It's unfortunate that your brother feels that way. If you talk to people on both sides of the issue, I think you'll be surprised to find that almost everyone supports the troops. Some people object to the war, but not to the warrior.

Answer 8

Your brother is one soldier. His opinion, although important, is minuscule in the grand scheme of things. That attitude would have to trickle down to the recruits--high school seniors primarily--who, in my humble opinion, don't base their decisions on CNN's liberal slant towards politics...

I don't think you need to worry about a draft any time soon.

PS: your brother doesn't need CNN's approval to feel like he is doing a good thing. He already knows...

Answer 9

soldiers are tools of policy.... whether it's good policy or bad policy..... they know that going in.....

the moral of the troops was destroyed by the commander and chief who put them in a no-win situation!!!!!

reporting what is happening in Iraq isn't stabbing them in the back.... it's reporting the news!!!! good and bad!!!!!

and historically it's never democrats who put us in unjust, criminals wars requiring the DRAFT..... that honor is owed to republicans!!!!

Answer 10

It's always good to hear from you brave souls on the front line in Iraq.