With an all-volunteer military, the American public gets to vote on
the war not only on election day, but all year 'round. If people
supported the war in Iraq, more of them would enlist, and we
wouldn't have a personnel shortage that has the current
administration using "stop-loss" to keep people from leaving after
their time is up, nor would they need to consider a draft.
The simple fact that people aren't joining the military to fight
the war in Iraq, or a potential war in Iran, illustrates that the
American public doesn't support the war.
Any time a draft is used (and stop-loss is a type of draft), it
indicates that the country is being forced to be involved in a war
that the people don't agree with. As elected officials who are
supposed to be representing what the people want, the
administration should then withdraw from that war.
But, of course, that would require them to care about what the
people want. Which they don't.
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