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...doubt, a return to Vietnam-era compulsory military service would be political suicide, so not surprisingly, the Bush administration has tried to distance itself from the announcement, insisting there are absolutely no plans to ask Congress to reinstate compulsory service. Still given the apparent quagmire in Iraq, the Pentagon??€™s actions are not so surprising. Bringing back the draft might be unthinkable—even untenable—but the Bush administration has little by little exhausted its options in a war it should never have chosen to undertake alone in the first place...
While it is certain the Bush administration would never reinstate the draft in an election year (besides, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said last year he was opposed to a new draft), the Pentagon??€™s actions reflect the glaring urgency of the situation in Iraq. As the violence intensifies, there has been increased attention to the fact that troop levels in Iraq are grossly inadequate. Late last week, the Pentagon announced its new troop rotation plan, which calls for 50,000 additional U.S. troops in Iraq in the next several months, bringing the total level...
...needed, there is also growing concern that current levels are unsustainable. In September, the Congressional Budget Office determined that without extending tours of duty beyond one year, current force levels in Iraq would have to start dropping precipitously in about five months. In line with this reality, the Pentagon??€™s new rotation plan relies on the idealistic hope that expanding forces now will prevent the need for a sustained U.S. presence in the spring. The Pentagon??€™s plan actually leads to a reduction of forces to 100,000 troops by the middle of next year...
According to Goad, Lambda members and professors are closely collaborating to devise a legal game plan for challenging the Pentagon??€™s policy...
...Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a network of 15 law schools and faculties, joined with a professors’ group in September to file suit in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., claiming that the Pentagon??€™s threats infringed upon educators’ First Amendment rights...