You wanna re-constitute the draft? Where we gonna get the men... err, KIDS to fill the boots on the ground? We got kids that have done 3 tours already... while their Iraqi counterparts do get one week off outta three.
To 'win' this thing, seems to me we gotta spill a lot more blood, theirs and ours. Big maximum effort, sealing borders, snuffing resistance.. how we gonna win as an army of occupation if we can't win the hearts and minds.. when it's obvious we're losing hearts and minds?
We gotta go, and we gotta have a plan that focuses on how to do it. I can't see how else we're gonna convince the Iraqi armed forces or civil government that they have to secure and defend themselves. If it means the place Balkanizes into a Kurd, Shia and Sunni States and we shift our on the ground support and basing to Kurdish territory, so be it.
We gotta get a program running to either escalate this thing into the war that ends forever the threat of jihad driven Islamic Fundemental Theocracy in the region or get the hell outta dodge, because this occupying of Iraq in the half ass, stretched thin. high cost attempt at out-attritioning the Jihadists in their own back yard is doomed to failure.
And piling more **** on top of a wagon that's broken and ain't going anywhere just don't work. we've been there, done that.