... the Senate's senior defense spending member asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen if it is time to "consider reinstituting the draft."
Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, asked Gates and Mullen the question he said no one wants to ask: "Is the cost of maintaining an all-volunteer force becoming unsustainable and, secondly, do we need to consider reinstituting the draft."
...Gates and Mullen both said they thought the current volunteer force was the finest the U.S. has ever fielded. Gates said he "personally" believes that "it is worth the cost."
Mullen was not quite as sanguine.
"A future that argues for, or results in, continuous escalation of those costs does not bode well for a military of this size," he said, adding it the rising costs will eventually force the US to shrink the military, spend less on new weapons or to "curtail operations." The question of pay and benefits for the U.S. military "is the top issue we need to come to terms with," Mullen said...
Let's get that straight: in a time where joining the military is like taking vows of poverty, endangering your life and health, and guaranteeing endless slavery for the next several years, the Pentagon thinks its soldiers are making too much money and want to remedy that by recruiting most of the enlisted by conscription with little or no pay or benefits.
Some of the Democrats In Name Only are opening the door to that.
Yes, Virginia, they do appear to be taking a dive. The only problem is these palookas are determined to make everyone else take the fall.
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