I'm wondering what your take is on the draft ....
According to the CIA World Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/print/us.html
the US has 2,124,164 (2004 est.) males reaching military age annually.
The usual estimates are that the US military needs 100,000 more
people, or 200,000 if you really worry, or 400,000 if you really think
the military needs many many occupation troops. Even at the high end,
the portion is one-fifth the numbers of men reaching military age
annually, and presumably a draft would include women, too.
One-fifth or one-tenth is too small a portion of the age cohort for a
draft that is perceived in the US as legitimate. It looks more likely
the government will raise pay enough to attract the extra recruits it
needs.
The only people that might be drafted are older experts, not your
children, but you.
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