De de oorlogsadviseur van Bush zegt een terugkeer naar het militaire ontwerp de moeite waard is nadenkend

AP

Frequente reizen voor de V.S. de krachten in Irak en Afghanistan hebben de all-volunteer kracht beklemtoond en het de moeite waard het overwegen van een terugkeer aan een militair ontwerp, President George W. gemaakt Nieuwe de oorlogsadviseur bovengenoemde Vrijdag van Bush.

„ik denk het steek houdt om het zeker te overwegen,“ Lt. van het Leger. Gen. Lute van Douglas bovengenoemd in een gesprek met Alle Overwogen Dingen van de Nationale Openbare Radio „.“

“And I can tell you, this has always been an option on the table. But ultimately, this is a policy matter between meeting the demands for the nation’s security by one means or another,” Lute added in his first interview since he was confirmed by the Senate in June.

President Nixon abolished the draft in 1973. Restoring it, Lute said, would be a “major policy shift” and Bush has made it clear that he does not think it is necessary.

“The president’s position is that the all volunteer military meets the needs of the country and there is no discussion of a draft. General Lute made that point as well,” National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.

In the interview, Lute also said that “Today, the current means of the all-volunteer force is serving us exceptionally well.”

Still, he said, the repeated deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan affect not only the troops but their families, who can influence whether a service member decides to stay in the military.

“There’s both a personal dimension of this, where this kind of stress plays out across dinner tables and in living room conversations within these families,” he said. “And ultimately, the health of the all-volunteer force is going to rest on those sorts of personal family decisions.”

The military conducted a draft during the Civil War and both world wars and between 1948 and 1973. The Selective Service System, re-established in 1980, maintains a registry of 18-year-old men.

U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel has called for reinstating the draft as a way to end the Iraq war.

Bush picked Lute in mid-May as a deputy national security adviser with responsibility for ensuring efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan are coordinated with policymakers in Washington. Lute, an active-duty general, was chosen after several retired generals turned down the job.

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