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Article #1860Re: Women involved in combat (was Re: fu&^%$#@!@#$%^&*()@#!~!`)
From: David Hutchings
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 00:00
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On Sat, 7 Sep 1996 20:37:33 GMT, bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
wrote:
>You don't mean that literally, you're just hypothesizing that only a
>declared war would give Congress the political climate needed to
>reinstitute the draft, right? All it actually takes is a vote.
>
Sure I do. Remember it takes votes in both houses of coungress and a
signature by the president. That won't happen without a declaration
of war. People still remember Vietnam!
>I dunno, a sizeable war might likely have some sort of run-up of
>hostilities that might go on for months or even years. Raising a huge
>sea of faces in uniform might be one sabre to rattle along the way.
>Particularly if exactly that became a propaganda issue on the other
>side ('they only have 1.3m soldiers, we have X times as many! they'll
>just surrender if we show up!') and was giving them courage.
Raising an army like that could also cause a premptive strike by our
enemy. Numbers of solders is not a sabre to rattle. It take too long
to deploy them.
Dave Hutchings
In New Hampshire
EMail Address drftg@mv.mv.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e4d2,c920659657f04eed X-Google-Attributes: gid10e4d2,public X-Google-Thread: 1130cb,c920659657f04eed X-Google-Attributes: gid1130cb,public X-Google-Thread: 10fa57,f8b2c62c696fa28e X-Google-Attributes: gid10fa57,public X-Google-Thread: fff25,f8b2c62c696fa28e X-Google-Attributes: gidfff25,public X-Google-Thread: f824f,f8b2c62c696fa28e X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public X-Google-Thread: 10374a,c920659657f04eed X-Google-Attributes: gid10374a,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,c920659657f04eed X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public From: davehs@ix.netcom.com (David Hutchings) Subject: Re: Women involved in combat (was Re: fu&^%$#@!@#$%^&*()@#!~!`) Date: 1996/09/08 Message-ID: <3232d6fe.1548336@nntp.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 179257820 references: <322E584F.3521@injersey.com> <50mgub$20b@kiowa.wildstar.net> <50mo10$3qn@choctaw.wildstar.net> <50n2cf$43r@gaia.aoainc.com> <322f70fe.2805838@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <50p68f$7115@michiganj.intr.net> <3230bb21.2100365@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <x5wwy62h9u.fsf@world.std.com> organization: Netcom x-netcom-date: Sun Sep 08 9:47:05 AM CDT 1996 newsgroups: ne.general,la.general,alt.america,nc.general,ba.general,ok.general,nv.general,ok.general,nh.general,nj.general,nm.general,ca.general,chi.general,cu.general,dc.general