I am a conservative but I am 100% against hireing mercanaries to fight a war. Black water has to go. If we cant win the war then we should just go home and let those monsters eat each other.
2007-12-03 16:57:18 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
by DASHLOC4
I am all for mercanaries like we had in the American revolution. Difference is we are paying for Black water. Iraq is selling oil and should be buying their own mercanaries.
We are buying mecanaries to build another nation.
2007-12-03 18:13:02 · update #1
If the time ever comes to institute the draft, I think that we should. It probably won't happen though.
2007-12-03 17:15:57 · answer #1 · answered by Put on your boxing gloves boys! 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. Never. The draft is about as tyrannical and communistic as you can get.
I am not a liberal, I am a conservative. I have to go along with what that conservative economic Nobel laureate, Milton Friedman, said about it. It is slavery.
Besides, you don't get a good army out of conscripts. You get a bunch of miserable slaves who don't put full effort into their jobs. As an Army NCO, I have to constantly motivate and encourage my soldiers to advance and succeed. These are people who volunteered. I can't imagine the impossible job I'd have with a bunch of disgruntled conscripts.
Before Clinton, we had plenty of troops. The Army alone had over a million soldiers. Now, because of his downsizing, we are short. If we had as many as we did under Reagan and Bush I, there would be no Blackwater problem.
2007-12-03 17:02:28 · answer #2 · answered by BrianthePigEatingInfidel 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Who said we cannot win this war, the surge is working, even that commie Murtha had to admit it.
Why are you suddenly against private contractors or "mercenaries" as you have called them?
Were you against them during the American Revolutionary War? Without the assistance of the German Hessians we might not be a nation. I wonder if that would injure your "conservative" sensibilities.
2007-12-03 17:59:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go ahead, have a draft. But only if the rich kids have to die along with the poor ones, and the women along with the men. I'm sick of all these wealthy families voting for war and protecting their kids from it. But that's not going to happen, since the wealthy rule, not the majority,
2007-12-03 17:37:08 · answer #4 · answered by edith clarke 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That depends on your goal. If you want to create domestic unrest while expanding the existing wars and debts while diluting the effectiveness of our military force, then I would say yes, its time for a draft.
Otherwise, no!!!
2007-12-03 17:05:43 · answer #5 · answered by freedom first 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am against the draft until it is equal......last time it was used, women couldnt be drafted for frontline duty, only men. Now times have changed and women have been made equal, so I see no reason to exclude them from the frontline anymore.
2007-12-03 17:06:59 · answer #6 · answered by Happy-go-Lucky 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No way. I have young friends who I don't want to see die. Anyway, this war is too unpopular to even consider instituting a draft.
2007-12-03 16:59:25 · answer #7 · answered by Dangerous Dad 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely... if our country is going to go to war (as unjust as it may be) the whole country should be involved. America is not at war right now, the military is. America is at the mall.
2007-12-03 17:00:59 · answer #8 · answered by X 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
If we let them eat each other a long time ago, we probably wouldn't have half the problems we do.
2007-12-03 17:00:15 · answer #9 · answered by avail_skillz 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The military doesn't want to babysit a bunch of people who don't want to be there.
2007-12-03 17:03:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋