Juan Cole's recent commentary about McCain's military obectives and foreign policy makes sense. The troops and equipment McCain would need to pull those military objectives off simply do not exist at the current time given the amount of U.S. military commitments and every nation knows it. The only way McCain could back his rhetoric is with a draft or with a rapid increase in our all volunteer force which I just do not see happening any time soon. Besides, I just do not see how Congress would approve a draft so that leaves McCain's rhetoric as nothing more than hot air or is it? From Cole's commentary:
But McCain is not about the military status quo. He is ambitious for further conflicts. The current US military is too small to handle yet another front, and to maintain, as McCain insists they must, the current ones.
My friends, there is only one way for McCain to make good on his hawkish foreign policy and his virtual pledge of more wars.
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