"ONE million men and women serve in the United States Army, so why is it proving nearly impossible to keep a mere 150,000 of them in Iraq?
The Pentagon expects to face many Iraq-type conflicts in the coming years, wars that involve battling insurgents and restoring stability. As a result, a debate is beginning to churn in defense policy circles: Should the government enlarge the military so it can more easily fight these wars? Or should the government alter its policies, so as not to fight such wars as often, at least not alone"?
Why that's even a question is astounding to me. We have a million man ARMY (that doesn't include Marines, Air Force or Navy) and we spend more on our military than the rest of the world combined!
Our military does not need to be spread as thin as it is now and it's only because Bush and the neocons foolishly led us into Iraq when it was not necessary and did not have anything to do with defending our country.
You only need leaders to be competent and trustworthy-something you will never get from a Bush, or any Republican that I can think of, for the matter, to be able to manage a million-man Army against a bunch of rag-tag terrorists.
Withdraw our troops from Iraq immediately. Re-deploy 25,000-30,000 of the freshest troops we have to Afghanistan and rotate each of them every six months until Osama bin Laden and every member of al-Qaeda who was involved in 9/11 is dead.
Either impeach George Bush and arrest Dick Cheney or take away all of any power they have to senselessly lead us into another war that does not qualify as 'defending' the country.
