We need a Military Draft

Day in and day out we get news of the unending and accelerating violence in Iraq. Some experts, including some from the U.S. Military say a civil war in Iraq is inevitable. There are any number of reasons for this, not the least of which was how the U.S. managed the post war with the Coalition Provisional Authority.

Experts are still debating whether the U.S. actually declared war on Iraq or whether this was just a “police” action with “The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, Public Law 107-243, 116 Stat. 1497-1502 .

Whatever the case may be this military adventure is quickly closing in on WWII timeline, 1939 -45 and the country is slowly bleeding lives in a distant land with not only no end in sight but clearly heading towards more deaths at a faster pace. One cannot derive any sense of comfort that the government knows what it is doing by what it is saying, and the majority of the legislative branch, like an army of ostriches, hides its head in the sand.

With no easy way out of this fix one solution is to get more involved. The vehicle for this is to institute a military draft. Send in more troops, several hundred thousand more, to pacify Iraq. This is probably as good or better solution than cutting and running or the status quo which seems a hopeless situation helping neither the Iraqis or the U.S. The military needs the support of the American people in a substantive way and the draft will show the American people and those serving in the military that the country is behind them and committed.