Does Anyone Feel a Draft Coming On?

It seems that the Army National Guard's recruiting has fallen 30% below thier goals during the last two months, and the Army National Guard makes up 40% of the troops in Iraq. So, the Army National Guard is giving out higher enlistment bonuses and increasing the number of recruiters. Wars that not too many people want to fight are very, very expensive, and this one isn't getting any cheaper.

"We're in a more difficult recruiting environment, period," General Blum told reporters in disclosing the new figures and the new incentives.

No shit, Sherlock. Who wants to go get their head blown off for no good reason.

"There's no question that when you have a sustained ground combat operation going that the Guard's participating in, that makes recruiting more difficult."

I don't think young men and women today are a bunch of cowards who are afraid of a little "sustained ground combat operation", but don't you think if we were fighting the right war, and the people were behind it, recruiting wouldn't be so difficult? If that was the case, people would be lining up to help the cause.

In a related story, Ret. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf last night on Hardball with Chris Matthews (I couldn't find a full transcript) claims that the wounded men and women at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and just itching to get back on the battlefield.