When have the children of powerful people ever served?
I'd like to think there won't be a draft -- the only good point I've seen Bush make...maybe ever...was in the second debate, where he countered the draft rumors with the fact that an all volunteer army better suits todays modes of warfare. The army isn't about strapping guns and backpacks on a million gurnts and digging trenches. It's about having highly skilled, highly motivated people working with high tech, billion dollar technologies.
The only thing our now-eternal cycle of war will thrust upon us is a massive debt and a floundering economy.
And of course a bunch of families of volunteers I'm glad I don't happen to be part of.
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Date: 2004-11-08 02:52 am (UTC)I'd like to think there won't be a draft -- the only good point I've seen Bush make...maybe ever...was in the second debate, where he countered the draft rumors with the fact that an all volunteer army better suits todays modes of warfare. The army isn't about strapping guns and backpacks on a million gurnts and digging trenches. It's about having highly skilled, highly motivated people working with high tech, billion dollar technologies.
The only thing our now-eternal cycle of war will thrust upon us is a massive debt and a floundering economy.
And of course a bunch of families of volunteers I'm glad I don't happen to be part of.