Here come da draft!
You know, it's quite an amazing thing how people can hold such widely divergent opinions. I don't think I've ever met anyone who thinks there are not enough soldiers in the world, but here's a group of highly influential Americans who hold that view and are lobbying on its behalf:
"Dear Senator Frist, Senator Reid, Speaker Hastert, and Representative Pelosi:"
"The United States military is too small for the responsibilities we are asking it to assume. Those responsibilities are real and important. They are not going away. The United States will not and should not become less engaged in the world in the years to come. But our national security, global peace and stability, and the defense and promotion of freedom in the post-9/11 world require a larger military force than we have today. The administration has unfortunately resisted increasing our ground forces to the size needed to meet today's (and tomorrow's) missions and challenges.
"So we write to ask you and your colleagues in the legislative branch to take the steps necessary to increase substantially the size of the active duty Army and Marine Corps ..."
Open Letter: Open Letter: A bipartisan group urges the congressional leadership to substantively increase the size of the Army and the Marines.
[Rumours are also circulating on the Net that intensive lobbying is being conducted in the US for young women to be drafted into the US armed forces. I'd like to learn more as I've seen no evidence of this.]
You know, it's quite an amazing thing how people can hold such widely divergent opinions. I don't think I've ever met anyone who thinks there are not enough soldiers in the world, but here's a group of highly influential Americans who hold that view and are lobbying on its behalf:
"Dear Senator Frist, Senator Reid, Speaker Hastert, and Representative Pelosi:"
"The United States military is too small for the responsibilities we are asking it to assume. Those responsibilities are real and important. They are not going away. The United States will not and should not become less engaged in the world in the years to come. But our national security, global peace and stability, and the defense and promotion of freedom in the post-9/11 world require a larger military force than we have today. The administration has unfortunately resisted increasing our ground forces to the size needed to meet today's (and tomorrow's) missions and challenges.
"So we write to ask you and your colleagues in the legislative branch to take the steps necessary to increase substantially the size of the active duty Army and Marine Corps ..."
Open Letter: Open Letter: A bipartisan group urges the congressional leadership to substantively increase the size of the Army and the Marines.
[Rumours are also circulating on the Net that intensive lobbying is being conducted in the US for young women to be drafted into the US armed forces. I'd like to learn more as I've seen no evidence of this.]
Pip Wilson posted item above at 12:10 PM | Permalink
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