"When a service has to repeatedly resort to compelling the retention of people who want to leave, you're edging away from the whole notion of volunteerism."
This is what the Bush administration has done to the Army. If things do not dramatically change, and I mean an indefatigable turn from any and all desires to start a war with Iran, we can immediately kiss our all-volunteer military service goodbye. As long as the likes of Rummy can still face a camera and say everything is just hunky dory, and certain segments of Americana lap it up, conscription will become a fact of life in the not-too-distant future.
The U.S. Army has forced about 50,000 soldiers to continue serving after their voluntary stints ended under a policy called "stop-loss," but while some dispute its fairness, court challenges have fallen flat.
Stop-loss. Just another word to desribe indentured.
"The persistent use of stop-loss underscores the fact that the war-fighting burden is being carried by a handful of soldiers while the vast majority of citizens incur no sacrifice at all."
That is it, in a nutshell. This so-called war on terror, which is a misnomer anyway, is only minimally supported, in a physical way, by the Republican party members and electorate. In the blogosphere (hat tip to skippy), we call them keyboard commandos. In the real world, I'd call them cowards. Unfortunately, the term "cowards" has been usurped by the right-wingers and turned around to mean any Democrat, liberal or opponent of the current regime's policies. Double-speak is the norm for this crowd.
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