Matthew Yglesias discusses the possibiliy of a draft in the American Prospect.
(Link via AntiWar.com, I just realized that this article ran 2 weeks ago on Oct. 13).
Bascially, he makes the point that idiots like Rush Limbaugh gloss over. The fact that Congress voted against the draft or that the President promises not to have a draft or that the military doesn't want a draft is irrelevant in the face of a looming manpower shortage.
Although he is a liberal, and a Kerry supporter, his blog has a lot of interesting stuff, so check it out.
Having said this, I stick with my previous statement: because a draft is politically unfeasible, we will resort to wholesale slaughter to keep control. If we wish to attack Iran, we will simply reduce our forces in Iraq and resort to using Kurdish pershmega and brutality to retain control (by brutality I mean levelling entire villages with bombs and punishing disobedience by killing every member of someone's family). We will also pull troops out of Europe and maybe Korea. In a worst-case scenario, we may wind up nuking Iran and/or Syria.
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