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> I completly disagree.
*Great post-
I'll have to re-read what I asked to determine if
I agree or disagree now<G>
The motivation to ask this question to Rangernet comes from
the sabre ratt'ln of GW Bush and the modest debate in the media over
action in Iraq being just or not..
*Currently, my brain tells me that if GW Bush knows exactly where
the bad stuff is- then he should send the GPS location to the UN
inspectors asap so that the WORLD Community can confirm his evilness.
Without confirmation.. we have a strained ethical agenda in starting
a War. "Pre-emtive action" to me sound exactly like hostile action
or invasion of a sovern state.
Some of the comments from Congress about bringing Draftee's into
military service are amuseing..
nuff said for now-
Good Brain crunching..<G>
Good Post!
-=A=-
At 18 I was still in high school trying to find
> out what I wanted to be. I was worried about graduating and going to
> college. I can assure you I didn't want to be worrying aobut if in 6
> months I would be running around some foreign country fighting people.
>
> I think that the reinstatement of the draft is a good idea. That is for
> a number of reasons.
> #1. A volunteer army is more likely to turn on its own people. They
> are more likely to be able to shoot one of their people on their own
> soil.
> #2. The innability of all the armed forces to fill their ranks. People
> just don't want to work at a less than minimum wage job and get shot at
> doing so. (The only exception to this rule is the Marine Corps who have
> to turn away qualified recruits)
> #3. Unemployment. It would cut down on the number of recent high
> school graduates who do nothing but work minimum wage, and cause
> trouble.
>
> The idea of mandatory service is unneeded. For a number of reasons
> #1. Overpopulation of the armed forces. We have a large population,
> with no real enemies. A large manpower army would be unneccesary to
> fight any real battles. A nation like Israel, who is surrounded by
> enemies, or a small population nation, needs a mandatory armed forces.
> The United States in comparison does need such a force due to its size,
> and relative security.
> #2. Enemies (Real and Imagined). Our enemies are not the traditional
> enemies of the flat battle field. Our enemies are undefined stateless
> groups that hide in the masses, and attack without warning. Prior to
> the Revolutionary War, major battles were scripted, and very little was
> needed to be known of the opposing tactics, since they were all the
> same. One group would face the other, and they would shoot out till one
> group retreated. The American Revolutionaries changed that, minutemen
> trained to fight enemies that came from the woods. They hid behind
> walls, buildings, trees, whatever. They changed the way of war. The
> wars that US are fighting are information, terrorism and drugs. A
> conventionaly trained group of fighters will not be able to fight any of
> them. You can't fight ideas and shadows with bullets.
> #3. Education. The US economy relies on college education. There are
> many jobs to get with a high-school education or lower. Most of these
> are low paying with little or no chance of forward movement. They also
> leave no certainties for the future. An associates will not get you a
> job any longer in most fields. A bachelors will get you where an
> associates would land you 10 years ago. In an increasing number of
> fields a Masters is needed to get into position. The armed forces often
> leaves its members undertrained in anything other then warfare.
> Artillery members are often left with little more training then how to
> shoot a cannon deep into enemy territory. They are not taught the
> reason why the equipment works the way it does, only that it does. So
> after adding on three years of compulsive service, the individuals still
> need to spend another four years minimum. That is seven years minimum
> before entrance into the job force.
>
> XkeithX
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