Supporters of the war: what will it take for you to sign up for the military?

[member 5645]

Sorry for butting in again and bursting your bubble.
You going to go for their country(Israel),or for their(rich).
More cannon fodder is alwys needed.Please join.

Your grammar is incorrect to the point of incoherence.
Rephrase and maybe I'll answer...

 

[schwarzchildradius]

The problem is that, at this point, I don't think more troops or a more aggressive approach will help-- the U.S. has already long lost the political "hearts & minds" battle, so even if you level every mosque and kill every insurgent today, tomorrow there will be a new insurgency. Sending the National Guard which is in principle designed as a stateside, peacetime organization to battle with the most deadly terrorists on Earth is obviously stupid. The result is that the National Guard has failed to meet is recruitment goals this year. Is that a problem? I don't think so, because essentially the insurgency is losing the military battle, and the U.S. is winning. However, we're clearly losing the political battle; the result will be a united Shiite Islamic state (uniting Iran & part of Iraq). Also, if the U.S. is ever seriously threatened outside of Iraq, the military will be unable to respond except with overwhelming force (i.e. nuclear weapons as opposed to paratroopers & tanks)

 

[tumor]

First, sorry Phatmonkey for my rant back there, it was late at night very tired.
Well guys... I think Iraq situation will settle rather nicely in few upcoming years,some bombings and head cuttings will remain but on the whole Iraq going to become something like Egypt.
Iraq simply needs strongman like Saddam was before the war and with USA army in their newly build bases in Iraqi desert, situation will never slip out of controll.
As to the Iraqi people, yes they hate Americans but they love dollars, and iraqis went thru hell like this when they fought Iranians so they going to recover.
My only worry is that little,armed with nukes, unpredictiable country on the shores of mediterranean sea,

 

[loseyourname]

Boy, are you naive. You don't know anything about the military, at all.

Umm, I do know that if I want to be a JAG, I need a JD. What's so naive about that?

 

[Gokul43201]

I think I heard in the news this morning, that the Marines are requesting re-enlistment.

 

[loseyourname]

Hasn't every branch of the military been requesting re-enlistment for the past two years? Maybe we should start training death-row inmates and lifers to perform suicide missions (kidding, of course).

 

[tumor]

Maybe we should start training death-row inmates and lifers to perform suicide missions (kidding, of course).

Great idea! fight fire with fire!

 

[Gokul43201]

Hasn't every branch of the military been requesting re-enlistment for the past two years? Maybe we should start training death-row inmates and lifers to perform suicide missions (kidding, of course).

Glad you're kidding.

Perhaps the other branches have been calling for re-enlistment too, but the Marines just announced a raised pay package for re-enlistees (sometime this weekend). I just brought this up since I heard it in the news today...nothing more.

 

[jammieg]

I would probably sign up if I were told the truth alone about why I should go to war, people who have been through war have a degree of that understanding but sometimes we never do things because we never had to do them, but then if the truth were told by someone like the president with a title and cameras I have a feeling 99% of the most bastard youth would not sign up. Otherwise, I would probably half dodge a draft or move to another country, after all I might want to be president someday and the past 3 have been good role models yes no? Maybe there in lies the real problem, when the system is so saturated with corruption that the president of today is the son of the president of yesterday in a "free and democratic society" it is finished, enjoy while it lasts. I support the war, I pay taxes.

 

[mattmns]

I am 19, and if I was not in school I would probably join the marines and go fight in Iraq (or wherever I was needed). I would also have no problem being drafted. I do not support the war by the way.

 

[Smurf]

In that case I am forced to generalize you as one of the many over-patriotic westerners, I will never risk my life for my Government, it's not worth dying for.

 

[Polly]

None of you are going to the war. We don't want to lose any of you.

 

[Locrian]

I don't need lessons from you.In my post about military there was nothing offensive, just valid observation.

Aparently you do need lessons, since the post you made before the above one was most obviously a personal attack. Ad Hominems are one thing, but you weren't even out to make a case against his argument; you just felt the need to be insulting. Trying to deny what obviously occurred would be uniwse.

 

[russ_watters]

Perhaps the other branches have been calling for re-enlistment too, but the Marines just announced a raised pay package for re-enlistees (sometime this weekend). I just brought this up since I heard it in the news today...nothing more.

Every branch of the military always tries to get people to re-enlist. Obviously, experience makes for better soldiers/sailors/marines.