In my opinion the course we, as a nation should take, is an orderly withdrawal from ALL international deployments and trade agreements and let the rest of the world burn. That is unlikely to happen, so my next best option militarily is to increase the size of the force if necessary by allowing Category 3 and 4 volunteers to enter the service. Places can be found. It doesn't take a genius to carry a rifle out of the back of a Bradley.
As for Iran and Korea, let the diplomats work for now. We tried for 12 years in Iraq before we invaded again. Korea has only been a few years and Iran 1 year. You seem to be advocating we up our troop strengths to the 2 1/2 war criteria of Reagan. If we go to war again, we need to deploy troops from Korea, Germany and CONUS. If it goes nuclear, we always have the Minuteman. Russel Madere Webmaster 504.832.9835 SunShine Pages by EATEL www.sunshinepages.com -----Original Message----- From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 9:06 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Polls Russel wrote: > The current military desire to keep an all volunteer force and nothing > new on the horizon that diplomacy can't resolve. The only belligerent > nations right now are Iran and North Korea and we are heavily into > diplomatic negotiations with them to solve our issues. So you're saying it's a good strategy to have a fully committed military? You feel that preparing for the unexpected is a waste of resources? Further, you'd say that there is very little chance that Iran or North Korea will choose war over diplomacy? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=37 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:132916 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
