ShamMol said:
And it won't commence now Fant, get real. There is so much opposistion to this war alone that you really think that the "vast majority of the American public will rise to the occasion?" You need to get out of this bubble you have created for yourself and realize that this public that you have created in your mind doesn't exist. It isn't rising to the occasion now when military recruiting is severely down, and it probably will not for a while longer.
That acute case of tunnel-vision, from which it seems apparent that you suffer, simply will not let you see anything peripheral, will it?
Have you not read my multiple comments on the subject which stress that there is no need for conscription at this time because the volunteers more than amply fill the needs of the military?
Have you not read my mockery of that goof ball Congressman, Charley Rangel, the Harlem Hot Shot who needs a shot of publicity every now and then so that folks outside of his enclave district will remember that he exists?
Instead of being squelched, if the Cold War had heated up, do you think there would have been a draft?
If, as an example, the actions of the North Koreans, or the Chinese, should precipitate a shooting war, do you think the numbers of our 'peacetime' military would be adequate? Or would some augmentation be necessary?
There will always be opposition to conscription. Just as there has always been opposition to anything that might upset the path to glory laid out by the liberal intelligentsia.
In other times, in other countries, these are the folks who have lain down before the steamrollers of tyranny.
It has been said that at the time of the American Revolution, one third of the people supported the Crown, one third didn't care either way, and the remaining third craved liberty and were willing to fight for it,
It is fortunate for the liberals of today that the signers of the Declaration of Independence fell into that last group. Citizen soldiers did the job.
It was fortunate that a majority of the population supported preservation of the Union in Lincoln's time. Volunteers were augmented by conscripts.
It was fortunate that in World Was I and II, that the minuscule peacetime military could be quickly expanded by volunteers and augmented by conscripts to do what needed to be done.
We all hope, and some of us pray, that conscription will never be necessary again. However if it is, it will happen despite the moaning, groaning, and whining of the modern day version of the American Tories of revolutionary times, and those of similar stripe throughout the history of the US.