When people squeal loudly you know you've hit a sore spot. First of all, Josh Marshall is right that the lack of media attention paid to ridiculous legal threats made by the head of the RNC which are designed to intimidate people from engaging in obviousy legal speech is outrageous. The DNC should've squealed more about this, though I imagine it's one of those sensitive areas in campaign finance law which could make doing that problematic.
But, of course a draft is a serious possibility, and not just because we're worried that Bush needs more cannon fodder for his "four more wars!" It's because the situation in Iraq has bogged down much of our army, so that if we actually had to fight a war of necessity instead of a war of neocon fantasy, we'd be in trouble.
Suppose that on September 11, 2005, a massive terrorist attack on US soil happens again. Suppose the perpetrators are from, say, the (fictional) nation of the Thilippines. And, suppose we determine that the Thilippine government has been arming and funding and supporting these terrorists, and there are thousands of them.
So, after taking the obviously neccessary step of placing all persons of Thilippine descent in internment camps, we have to invade. With what army?
With hindsight, Paul Wolfowitz's summer '01 graduation speech to the West Point was creepy as hell. But, even without adjusting your tinfoil beanie one can conlude that he was right about his basic point. In a time of peace, we shouldn't assume war can't break out. And, in a time of war - another one can break out as well.
