Members of the Saudi royal family visit Saudi troops who are
helping to fight rebels in Yemen
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian terrorist who tried to blow up a KLM plane in Detroit on Christmas Day, was apparently armed in Yemen. The Yemeni government is currently fighting a long-standing war against terrorists and seperatists, with assistance from American special forces teams who are alleged to be on the ground in Yemen training local troops and calling in air strikes. This is the way the war should have been handled in Afghanistan!
Where does Lieberman think we are going to get the troops from? We are already fighting two unfinished wars, and our troops are currently on their fourth rotations. (In World War II most troops only saw about two tours of duty.) America is also relying on hired guns, like Blackwater, to fight its wars. There are currently more contractors in Afghanistan than uniformed military. The mercs are largely unregulated and often cost much more than regular troops.
If the war is this serious, the obvious answer would be to reintroduce the draft. But that would be political suicide. At least it might get apolitical college students off their asses ...
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