1,000,000 US troops in Iraq (300,000 in Afghanistan) would bring victory very quickly to those wars & would make it much easier to invade Iran to take out their nukes & bring them Democracy. What could be more important to any American than winning the war on terror, de-nuking Iran & turning most of the Mideast into a Democracy?
Or are Bush's half baked, half assed "Surges" that will never "finish the job" make you feel more comfortable?
2007-09-03 14:58:56 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Well I don't think a draft would work. You can't send people over there that don't believe in the cause. Cause then you get people half assing it over there and getting them or their peers killed.
2007-09-03 15:08:53 · answer #1 · answered by gofigure 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not that simple. We had a draft in Vietnam, we had 500,000 guys there at one point, but we still lost. You can't win this kind of war with only superior force, even MUCH superior force. That's already been shown.
When we got into this war, Bush told us it would be easy. Just go about your business, he said, we'll take care of the war and it'll be over before you know it. Then when the war went badly he said "Well I never expected it to be easy!"
But what if he'd come to us first and said that it would be a hard war to win, it would require sacrifice, take several years, cost tens of thousands of American deaths and maybe a TRILLION dollars, but it would be -worth- it? Do you think many Americans would have gone through that to bring 'democracy' to the Middle East? I sure don't. I don't think Americans would stand for a draft either.
But that's what FDR did in WWII. He brought Americans on board for a real war. Everyone had to make sacrifices. There were shortages of all kinds of things. Factories that made cars and washing machines and refrigerators were all re-tooled for weapons. At one point lead was so valuable that you had to bring in an empty toothpaste tube to buy a new one. Every young person put his life on hold and went out and enlisted. Everyone bought bonds, collected scrap, etc.etc. THAT was a real war!
No war we've had since then has been nearly as popular. People haven't wanted to sacrifice for them because they don't see what we have to win. I don't think many people really believed that we could bring democracy to the Middle East and destroy terrorism by attacking a country that had nothing to do with terrorism.
Also we don't need just 'cannon fodder' as in previous wars, we need fewer people but more skilled people to operate complicated new weapons systems. Even if we could draft these people it would take 2-3 years to train them!
2007-09-03 22:22:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Three reasons:
1) Congress not only would not authorize a draft, they would laugh in Bush's face.
2) The American people would probably demand--and get--Bush's impeachment and conviction
3) As the American people proved in Vietnam, having a draft willnot work. If the citizenry do not support a war, the state cannot force them to do so. Not that anybody who studied history didn't already know that then.
2007-09-03 22:11:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because a draft wouldn't solve those problems.
It would take 3 to 5 years to really increase the size of the military thru a draft.
Facilities would have to be built.
Drill instructors would have to be trained.
Old bases and post would have to be refurbished.
Then it would take time to intergrate the new recruits into units and to form new units.
Even during WW ll, it took 2 1/2 years to form a new division.
It would take longer now, because, we wouldn't deploy units as untrained as some of the WW ll units were, when they were first deployed.
2007-09-03 23:04:20 · answer #4 · answered by jeeper_peeper321 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Republicans will never start the draft. That is a Democrats idea....they will do anything to try to get a draft going during the Bush administration. Nice try, Hillary. It won't work.
2007-09-03 22:16:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the answer to this question is do you personally have the resources to train 1 million troops? neither does our govt. vietnam proved bodies arent the answer. and currently the military is tapped, and just telling people to go serve or go to jail isnt going to turn them into rambo. besides the issue of do we really need to stick our noses into the entire middle east's business anyway...
2007-09-04 00:30:24 · answer #6 · answered by FLirishfan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it could very well happen.
bush has revealed himself to be a remarkable flip flopper and a disturbing one at that.
not only will bush change his mind, but he'll deny that he was ever against what he changed his mind about in the first place.
so, not only is it possible for bush to start a draft, but he will then deny that he was ever against it.
2007-09-03 22:22:43 · answer #7 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OK, get your gear ready.
2007-09-03 22:09:27 · answer #8 · answered by Freethinker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋