You say you want a draft? I'll say you are not taking it far enough - we would need a full-out war footing. You DO know we are not even close to being on a war footing, right? That the whole reason that we haven't sufficient armoured vehicles is because only ONE company is allowed to make up-armoured Humvees? That kind of ****** isn't allowed in a real country at war - the Defense Department appropriates the patent, they hand it to GM or Ford, and say "go crank out 200,000 of these NOW!". But we are playing at war, we don't want any of the Defense contractors to not get rich, we don't want to inconvenience the public who may not be able to get their new SUV on time because the production line was converted to armoured Humvee production. But if you want a draft, then we need enough weapons and logistics to support it - no pansy assing around with Defense contractors, no deferrments for sons of Congressmen, no worrying about the impact on the civilian economy. Because THAT'S what it would take to support that many troops.
Now, I'm thinking it's too bad you don't have the background to understand the context of what you are thus saying. You haven't studied the past, you have learned only a smidgeon of military history, and have absolutely NO training in psychology. And absolutely NO education in world politics and economics.
IRAQ is not the FSCKING long-term problem of the US. Al-Queda isn't even the worst problem facing the US.
The rise of China and Asia is. They will be kicking our asses economically in the next two decades. They will be the reason why their will be no money for you to retire on, reduced schooling for your children, and decline of standard of living. And nearly every single DIME we are spending in Iraq is being funded by going further and further into debt with them.
But WHO is going to pay for it? WHO is going to really put this country on a war footing? The costs you are talking about put what we currently spend to shame. And that is just more debt to the Chinese, and a much worse economic position than we can recover from.
For what? To rebuild a shithole country? That doesn't even produce THAT much oil anymore? That had almost NOTHING to do with Osama and the 9/11 attacks? That had NO WMDs? That has almost NONE of the pre-requisites that usually preceed a sucessful democracy? That is STILL split across tribal and religious lines so deeply that there is an almost certain chance that it will fracture as soon as we leave?
So we are doing a lot of good in Iraq? Bully, because that $5 BILLION per month could have done a lot of good lots of places, like here in the good 'ol USofA. Do you REALLY think that the people of Iraq will ever pay us back this expense in money and lives out of the goodness of their hearts? ROTFLMFAO...no, their political class will divide up the oil revenues between them as soon as we leave, pay some portion of it back to the oil elite in the US (inluding the Bush family), and get on with their squabbling...and laughing at the US taxpayer that put them in those positions to get rich.
You ARE aware the the approved Iraqi Constitution allows ANY set of provinces to split off from Iraq, and take control of the oil profits, if they can manage up a majority of political power by one party? You ARE aware that this is already being discussed by the head Iraqi politicians, and talking of the oil rich north going to the Kurds, and the oil riches of the south going to the Sunnis? And the US can't prevent this, because it is LEGAL in the Constitution that WE helped them devise and pass. Increasingly, it looks like we haven't given Iraq a democracy, except as a transition to tribal states, each controlling their own oil wells.
And to enable this, you would triple the number of US troops, and greatly increase our debt to those that truely DO threaten us in the bigger picture? How do you define winning then?
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