The oracle speaks

[prog]

If Bush wins in November, look for the draft to restart by the end of 2005. Dollars to donuts says they’d really like to switch it on right now, but for the precipitous popularity drop it would guarantee. But if an overconfident neocon administration (check) thinks that, with an inexhaustible supply of fresh troops and techs, it could finally meet all its international burnination objectives within a couple of years and seal up a Cheney (or whomever) win in 2008, I bet that it would gleefully take the risk.

Think you’re too old? But you’re a hacker, eh? Uh-oh...

Comments

[wrog]

I don't think it's going to have much to do with whether W gets re-elected or not.

If anything, a Kerry administration that's still stuck in Iraq (under the "we broke it, we bought it" paradigm) is probably more likely to institute a draft under the guise of wanting to appear strong on national defense/security, whereas under a continuation of Rumsfeld&friends sending more troops would be an admission that trying to do everything with streamlined, small, efficient forces was just a mistake ... and we know how they are about admitting mistakes.

Keep in mind it was Jimmy Carter who brought back draft registration after it had been a dead issue for most of a decade.