One Unforeseen Crisis Away From A Military Draft?
February 20th, 2008 | by Daniel DiRito |The fact that the bulk of the American public’s military assessments are filtered through the prism of the powers that be…a la the Bush administrati on…can be rather misleading and may well engender a false sense of security. Implied in these assessments is an assurance that our nation is being sufficiently protected from harm. It’s not only possible that this is a rose colored view; we may be one unforeseen crisis away from the need to reinstitute a military draft.
A survey of a few thousand current and former military officers overwhelming ly concludes that our military has been stretched dangerously thin by the war in Iraq. What the survey doesn’t state may be the ominous six hundred pound gorilla in the room.
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