This writer, at least admits what it is about:
REINSTATE THE military draft and see how quickly the United States ends its war in Iraq.
Imagine if all our sons and daughters were at risk for deployment to the desert. Imagine if all our children faced the Al Qaeda-style butchery that took the lives of two American soldiers, Private First Class Thomas L. Tucker of Madras, Ore., and Private First Class Kristian Menchaca of Houston.
If we feared our children were next up to be gutted like fish, we might be less likely to shake our heads at crazy antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan. If turning 18 meant your kid's boots on the ground, a resolution to pull troops out of Iraq by a certain date might grab more than six votes in the US Senate.
So it isn't about helping the military cope with deployments after all. What a shock.
But what really gets me is the description of our troops as "children" instead of adult volunteers who bravely defend us. Really, our actual children are at risk here at home from al Qaeda-style butchery if we fail to kill them overseas and change the sick societies that send them forth with box cutters and pure raw hatred for us. Nearly 3,000 of our figurative children died on September 11, 2001. Remember? And remember Beslan where actual children were slaughtered by jihadis secure in the knowledge that killing little infidels is fun and easy?
At least the 2,500 military personnel we've lost so far after three years of fighting have killed lots of the enemy. Is our kill ratio 10:1? 20:1? Sure beats the enemy kill ratio on 9/11 of 150:1 against us all in the space of about an hour, doesn't it? And if only a handfull of the 25K to 50K enemy we've probably killed would have struck us at home again, I'd say we've struck a good bargain. And this math doesn't consider the price we'd pay if they ever use WMD.
Imagine if our children are at risk, Ms. Vennochi?
Oh, I do. I most certainly do imagine that.
