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Originally posted by Dynamix
All American here need to Grow some balls. If I get called to serve count me in. Think of the thousands of men who have died over the years so that we get to sit here and promote porn.
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There won't be a draft. For the simple reason that the Iraq war is one based on opinion, not a factual attack on America. The administration knows it would never get the backing for a draft from the American people.
If we were invading Afghanistan with everything we had, for example, and we knew for sure Osama was there, and a draft was needed - it would probably go through. Because that would not be based on opinion, but a factual attack on the US (9/11). Truthfully, you probably wouldn't need a draft. As in WW 2, people would join up handily.
Regarding the quote above, Iraq is no WW 2, or American Revolution. It's a war based on the opinion of a threat, rather than a direct attack against the US. Historically, this is always troubling to Americans, and historically, we don't do well on this basis (Korea and Vietnam).
I'd also like to point out that, historically, wars fought against a true threat to the United States (eg, based on a direct attack) are rarely protested by Americans, and generally there's no bones made about serving if you're called.
This is a tired arguement (grow some balls, remember our forefathers) and is just a PR tool to make people ashamed of not engaging in blind nationalism. It's only used or needed for wars where opinion, rather than actual, proveable threat to the US, is the basis.
Americans don't like to go to war. Who does? After WW 1, we weren't really interested in WW 2 until Pearl Harbor. Basically, America needed a good reason, and Europe getting their ass kicked by Hitler wasn't enough. Pearl Harbor was.
The point being, the formula is: attack us directly, you awaken a sleeping giant, and there's no lack of 'balls', historically. But if the direct attack ain't there... Americans are going to question it. Which makes plenty of sense to me. Has to do with brains before balls - which helps you keep your balls attached to your body.
Back to the overall point of the thread - Iraq isn't a compelling enough war for America to back the draft. It isn't going to happen, IMO, because Iraq didn't attack the U.S. Post Vietnam, without that kind of direct threat, Americans from all walks of life, on both sides of the party aisle, are going to be pretty unsupportive of the subject.