Thom Hartmann: It's Time to Bring Back the Draft for Men & Women

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18. Uh-huh

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"When the top brass needs to rely upon volunteers instead of draftees or conscripts, the smart ones adapt to the situation and adopt tactics to not needlessly squander the lives of the troops."

So.... on the advice of our best military minds - we've expended (in Iraq and Afghanistan) way more than we lost to terrorist attacks in the last two decades. These losses against a mere handful of baddies. Here's my slant on this: When you turn things over to generals, generals are gonna do what generals LIVE to do. What general would wanna retire without ever having proved his prowess in his chosen field. Volunteer / draftee / it's not gonna dissuade or encourage a leader trying to leave a legacy he fancies for himself. The ONLY edge the volunteers might afford is that they want to do what they're doing. If they didn't, they wouldn't have joined OR would've quit early on.

Edit to add...... What we've seen in recent years is the sad fact that those we've put in the White House have NO on the front lines experience - while depending on generals for advice as to what to do with our standing forces. So what ARE a general's endeavors??? To keep his horse IN the stable so to speak? That'd equate to me owning a Ferrari and figuring what's best is that it stays in the garage.