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We are at war, a different kind of war, since the enemy is hard to find. But very serious, and not winnable in a decided manner as wars once were.
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When America went to war in the old days the entire picture you paint changed, and many individual rights and freedoms are set aside temporarily in the interest of winning.
In this war, the requirements are so undefined, the military forces are not employed in the customary way.
Where are our 10 Carriers, the heavy bombers,the Seals,
the Merchant Marine being actively used ?
So we are trying to run a strange new war with as little interference with our fragile economy and as little imposition on civil rights as possible.
911 is beginning to fade in memory now, but you know from the truckloads of explosives being intercepted in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere that the enemy has not given up.
We do not know how critical things may get. Ten bombs were exploded on the trains in Spain.
How serious would things be if ten bombs were set off simultaneously in ten cities in the US ? Such an event would require much more enlisted manpower than we have available.
Dont ask me whether it is police, or firemen, or soldiers or FBI agents as I dont know that and I dont know if they will be needed in the US or outside. Government planners will decide.
I think the talk of a draft at this time is a trial balloon to see whether the public would accept one if it becomes
necessary when things worsen.
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