"Devine, James" wrote: > > Yoshie writes: > >If the next POTUS is going to expand the war, though, won't he deploy > US troops in Saudi Arabia, given the spate of terrorist attacks there > which may very well escalate? > > >As for Iran, if the next POTUS is Kerry, won't he more likely try in > Iran what worked in Yugoslavia?< > > I doubt that the US armed forces have the ability to expand their role -- unless > there's a draft. With declining support for the current war, would President Kerry > be able to pull that off?
I don't think _any_ president can pull it off, for the reasons you give, and even with a draft it would be rather iffy: citizen soldiers do not do well as an army of occupation of a hostile citizenry. But someone with ties to the more traditional u.s. imperialist interests and with an electoral victory over bush in hand would have a much better chance of doing it. I don't think there is _any_ chance of the present administration risking any further expansion. But I didn't think the first Bush would actually go to war either! Carrol > jd
