Draft Imminence Asserted
Although Pentagon puff artists insist they€™re making quota, recruiters are already saying it would be easier to find $100 bills on the sidewalk outside a homeless shelter than fill their enlistment quotas, even with the huge bonuses now being paid.
So the draft €“ which will include both boys and girls this time around €“ is a no-brainer in €˜05 and €˜06.
Oh sure, the Pentagon suits will fight it. Volunteers tend to go with the flow and seldom blow the whistle on military stupidity, flawed tactics and self-serving leadership. And draftees don€™t hesitate to make waves and tell the truth. Not to mention influential citizens with draft-age kids who€™ll soon be demanding an answer to the same type of hard question their moms and dads shouted during the Vietnam War: €œHey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?€
Rumsfeld, in fact, has already kicked off the anti-draft campaign by denigrating the draftees who fought in Vietnam. The SecDef, who prefers sycophants who don€™t ask questions, recently stated that Vietnam-era draftees added €œNo value, no advantage, really, to the United States armed services … because … it took an enormous amount of effort in terms of training, and then they were gone.€
Wrong once again. I led draftees for almost four years in Vietnam and for several years during the Korean War. If well-led, there are no finer soldiers. Ask the Nazis, the Japanese and the Reds in Korea and in Vietnam, where €œno value€ draftees cleaned their clocks in fight after fight.
Israel, a country that has lived under the barrel of the Islamic terrorist gun for decades, has the most combat-experienced counterinsurgent force in the world €“ and boy and girl draftees are its major resource.
Count on it. We will follow their lead.
I guess when Hackworth speaks, people should listen.
(via Cursor)
