The days of rounding up 200 hardy men, handing them a rifle and telling them which general direction to shoot to win a battle are over. Iraq isn't Vietnam. It's unpopular, but it's a totally different ballgame in terms of strategy. I don't think gathering all the unwilling, disgruntled highschool and college students you can find and throwing them onto the battlefield after minimal training will do anything to further our cause. Think of it this way: Right now, we have enthusiastic, and very highly trained military forces in Iraq. The insurgents are still claiming casualties. Replace the words highly trained with minimally trained, and enthusiastic with disgruntled, and try and imagine the situation improving in the slightest. I can't.
