Reply #5: As opposed to regular army recruits [View All]

[PATRICK]

where you can get some gung ho and disadvantaged youths to volunteer for any form of heady risk and violence, the National Guard with its tearful departures of weekend warriors from their families is likely to be decimated by Bush policies, especially stop/loss and lack of support.

Under Bush a draft will be inevitable unless we are going to wait in a state of perpetual unreadiness to react with one when it is too late except to throw raw recruits into a crisis. Or a larger professional army with fewer high tech toys and less privatization and civilian control.

They have always enthused about renewing the small nuke option. I hope this will not be their cure all for the above inevitable crunch.