Saturday, June 18, 2005

The Recruitment Crisis

I don't have to tell you either 1)how the armed forces, which have thinned out at home and abroad, have become
drastically weakened or 2)how parents are refusing in droves to let their children sign up to fight in Iraq. Some
conservatives(and Charlie Rangel) ask us how we'd feel about a draft. Richard Clarke claims the Army wouldn't
be too thrilled because then the general level of commitment and expertise would be compromised. He
also let fly the fact that our forces in South Korea are growing so sparse, that in a 2002 review, the pentagon
was thinking of using nuclear weapons on North Korea. Are we going crazy for crazy with Kim Jong Il?

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