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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Oh, yes. I meant to respond to this. I had a history prof who once lectured on that point. His idea was that every American war until then ( late 1970's) had been fought by draftees, who wanted to get the DAMN war OVER, get back home to girlfriends and freedom, and get back to getting on with their lives and making MONEY. So the mass of troops was MOTIVATED-- get this over with, WIN, get done, get outta here. You COULD make the case that that's part of why we haven't done too well since the Volunteer Army came along- after the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan are done, the vols will still be IN-- just based somewhere quiet, no longer in combat.

It's been a LONG TIME SINCE pundits observed that the Iraq war had been going on longer than World War II. NOBODY seems really determined to either WIN IT OR END IT.

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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Huh. I never realized people had hidden signatures around here.

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Originally posted by Storymark:


Well, if we actually reinstated the draft - we very likely would have ended our current wars by now - so Im okay with that, from an anti-war perspective.

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Oh, yes. I meant to respond to this. I had a history prof who once lectured on that point. His idea was that every American war until then ( late 1970's) had been fought by draftees, who wanted to get the DAMN war OVER, get back home to girlfriends and freedom, and get back to getting on with their lives and making MONEY. So the mass of troops was MOTIVATED-- get this over with, WIN, get done, get outta here. You COULD make the case that that's part of why we haven't done too well since the Volunteer Army came along- after the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan are done, the vols will still be IN-- just based somewhere quiet, no longer in combat.

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What happened to Reason, folks ?

-F

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