Your comments put the appropriate scale to the issue. To think that our issues in the middle east are about pulling out of Iraq or not ,as one would think from watching the presidential debate is rediculous.
The same old striving of empires, over what has been one of the most the most important pieces of real estate on the planet for thousands of years is what is at root of all this strife. The U.S. is and has been simply taking the baton from G.B and her/our allies in western europe in the struggle.
That will be on network news tonight completely free of propaganda.
Maybe if the military branches put recruiting stations in La Jolla, Del Mar, CV and places like that throughout the U.S. won’t need a draft?