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Originally posted by tfmcmahon
The final deathnell for a daft is that there is not enough motivation on the part of the average guy to get off his fat ass and get dirty for his country.

Perhaps - just perhaps - the real reason the average guy won't get off his fas ass is that he knows he wouldn't be getting dirty for his country, but for Haliburton,[list of oil companies here], or whatever hackneyed ideology is hot this week, and then thrown under the bus when they're done with him. He knows there's billions available for whiz-bang Star Wars tech, but he'll be assed out for personal armor while he's in-country and VA benefits when he gets home. Maybe he really doesn't want to die for a foreign policy that has about as much direction as a blind platypus on acid.

"We don't need a draft" is a favorite bleat of the Right, but at the same time, they're quietly laying the groundwork for it.