Bush War Adviser Says Draft Worth a Look
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Posted by John under: Days of Noah,Distress of Nations
Frequent tours for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have stressed the all-volunteer force and made it worth considering a return to a military draft, President Bush’s new war adviser said Friday.
Distress of Nations
“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity the sea and the waves roaring;â€
—Luke 21:25
Days of Noah
â€The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
—Genesis 6:11
“I think it makes sense to certainly consider it,” Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute said in an interview with National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”
“And I can tell you, this has always been an option on the table. But ultimately, this is a policy matter between meeting the demands for the nation’s security by one means or another,” Lute added in his first interview since he was confirmed by the Senate in June.
President Nixon abolished the draft in 1973. Restoring it, Lute said, would be a “major policy shift” and Bush has made it clear that he doesn’t think it’s necessary.
The repeated deployments affect not only the troops but their families, who can influence whether a service member decides to stay in the military, Lute said.
“There’s both a personal dimension of this, where this kind of stress plays out across dinner tables and in living room conversations within these families,” he said. “And ultimately, the health of the all-volunteer force is going to rest on those sorts of personal family decisions.”
The military conducted a draft during the Civil War and both world wars and between 1948 and 1973. The Selective Service System, re-established in 1980, maintains a registry of 18-year-old men.
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., has called for reinstating the draft as a way to end the Iraq war.
Bush picked Lute in mid-May as a deputy national security adviser with responsibility for ensuring efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan are coordinated with policymakers in Washington. Lute, an active-duty general, was chosen after several retired generals turned down the job.
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Lance Gilman says Comment posted on August 12th, 2007
I never served in our country’s military. I contemplated the Navy but never went. I’m too old(44) now! LOL.
I have friends from Scandinavian countries that all had to serve in their Army. I think we should have the draft, I mean, even Elvis went in to the Army. If you want to be a career army guy/gal then enlist or whatever.
But, maybe we should have to do a year or two with an option to stay longer and earn college money, maybe it would straighten out some of the “youth gone wild” too!
jen-o says Comment posted on August 13th, 2007
the only way a draft will end the war is by stirring up more folks to protest and call for an end to the war… a draft, in and of itself, won’t end the war… in fact, i think it is dangerous to put “luke-warm” draftees (who don’t want to be there) along side of committed soldiers… maybe, i’m wrong and those of you who are veterans can set me straight… but, i wouldn’t want a luke-warm draftee next to me in a foxhole…
then again, i don’t trust ANY thing the pentagon wants to do… i’m not so sure i even support the war in iraq anymore (dave lucas will be happy to hear that… LOL)… although it is definitely not for pacifist reasons, i just think i need to rethink this whole war thing in light of the “new world order” folks who are making all the decisions… our soldiers are just pawns to them, as is all life which in their eyes is to be manipulated, used, and discarded…
i don’t know why they have me under surveillance… all they are going to see is a week’s worth of secret society info along with massive quantities of bible info and sites… maybe one of them will get born again… LOL…
Linda says Comment posted on August 13th, 2007
Jen-o
Your last statement was almost as good as Scott’s president imabadjihad!
And, you very well good be right.
Remnant says Comment posted on August 13th, 2007
Jen-O
Before Yeshua,I fought with a full team of professional solders, we had no draftees, no rules of engagement, however other friends, who were on the more regular army side of Vietnam, told me that there were few draftees who didn’t shine brightly when the lead was flying! They did well or they perished.
I would be more uncomfortable sharing a foxhole with a warm body during this period of time known as “don’t ask, don’t tell”, than I would with a draftee!
In Messiah
Remnant
Scott L. says Comment posted on August 13th, 2007
Greetings all!!
Lance, don’t feel bad. I tried getting on with the TSA as an air marshall and they told me that I was too OLD! (47). But fortunatley I did serve as one of (U)ncle (S)ams (M)isguided (C)hildren. But to your response I agree, if any kid coming out of high school has no clue on what he is doing at the time, why not join the services. For me it was in the blood, I was born an Air Force brat, was in Army ROTC in high school and was on my way to Air force Academy, but NOOOOO! I wanted to be a Marine and I got my wish.
But there were guys that I went to boot camp with that had an option with the judge, either serve time in jail or serve in corp and after two weeks at MCRD San Diego, they would have rather gone to jail, all my DI’s were vietnam vets and a couple of them were two or three times over.
And Jen-o, those “lukewarm boots” ( new recruits) well they didn’t last long. Out of 82 recruits, only 45 graduated and these are the guys that you could count on when you know what hit the fan. And if there was a passive Marine around, he got transferred to “somewhere”. They really didn’t exsist.
But what really sets me off is the memorial they set up in Canada for all the spineless no-nothings (thats mildy put) went there to avoid the draft.
But I do feel that our mission is accomplished over there, we don’t need to be sending billions of dollars over there to re-build that country, let the saudis do it, oh wait a minute, there to busy building indoor ski resorts.
But then again, (for you linda) we need to keep an eye on “imabadjihad”
because if he decides to launch a nuke towards Israel, we could stop it. And maybe tap on his door with a couple of our own laser guided bombs and bring him out of his fantasy world he is living in.
But all in all God’s plan is coming together, I hope we are all ready.
Scott
Lance Gilman says Comment posted on August 13th, 2007
I support the draft because I think it would be a good thing for our country, not so we can end the war in Iraq.
The war in Iraq may will not be over for a long time. Do you think the insurgents are going to just wave the white flag? Not gonna happen.
Most of them aren’t even Iraqi’s.
I think the war will just shift when we go to fight somewhere else in the region. It may be Iran, Syria, or alongside the IDF in Lebanon and the Golan Heights.
That’s when we’re gonna wish we had some fresh legs going into battle…
not to mention some to protect our borders here at home.
I say this not because I believe we should be at war necessarily, but, because we are at war, and it’s going to be a long one. Besides nobody has a plan yet to get people on track for peace. We all know who that guy’s gonna be right? I just think it would be a good thing for our country to be prepared. It would also send a message to the world that we ain’t playin’ around! Since we are the global police we need a bigger force in wartime.
jen-o says Comment posted on August 13th, 2007
you guys probably aren’t gonna believe this, but a very long time ago when i was in my mid-20s, i wanted to be in the air force… so i took this very long test (it was a day long event and they only gave the test a couple times a year, if i remember correctly)… anyway, the test had many different sections and subsections that were all timed and the idea was that if you did well on the test you could go straight to officer’s school… well, they told me that i had the highest score of everyone who took the test (which really surprised me because there were some really strange things on that test)…
and so i could go to the officer’s school… but the problem was that i wanted to be a spy; i wanted to go to monterey and learn all kinds of different languages and intercept spy messages (i love languages!… and have taken 4 of them in high school and college)… but they woudn’t let me be a spy… i argued and argued with them… but they said they wouldn’t let women be spies (i didn’t believe them)… they said they would send me to officer’s school and i could be an air traffic controller… but i had my mind made up and i was as stubborn as an ox (imagine that!… LOL)… and so i just said: aww, forgetaboutit then…
the foolishness of youth, eh?
i probably should have been an air traffic controller… it would have been a good job… :~)