Tim Dickinson of Rolling Stone thinks that a draft is just around the corner.
"Another war, critics warn, would push the all-volunteer force to its breaking point. 'This damn thing is just an explosion that's about to happen,' says Rangel. Bush officials 'can say all they want that they don't want the draft, but there's not going to be that many more buttons to push.'"
Sure there is. It's called keep a skeleton force of 20,000 in Iraq, and keep order by using bombs and flamethrowers to raze any town that causes trouble. And oh, yeah, any time a soldier is killed, kill 500 Iraqis, including the perpetrator's own family if it's possible to identify him.
No, I'm not advocating this, but I think that if the choice were between a draft and the coalition filling mass graves in order to keep order, we'd start the mass graves up again.
That is all.
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