Democrats are
accusing Bush of planning to call up more reserves just after the election.
So what? It'll be time to start calling up units to replace those already deployed. One of the few things close to scandalous about this is the short notification that the units are getting.
They're also our reserve units. Our spares, our backups, our rainy-day army. This, oddly, doesn't seem to bother much of anybody. While the Democrats may say it's unfair to reservists and their families, or that the fighting in Iraq is distracting us from finding bin Laden, I doubt that they really wanted to put those resources into fighting in Afghanistan. We're far more likely to find Osama there, but deploying more active duty units to Afghanistan is not anywhere to be found in Kerry's campaign platform.
Neither is doing anything about Arafat, Hezbollah, or Hamas. Those organizations will have to be delt with for us to win this war, but Kerry thinks actually trying to fight our enemies will distract us from the war (i.e. fighting our enemies). The only reasonable conclusion is that Kerry, or whomever he chose to be his national defense policy advisor, is a complete fucking moron. A less reasonable but probably more likely conclusion is that Kerry's advisors are hoping we lose the war, our cities are destroyed, and dissenters are dropped into industrial shredders.
But why are we fighting with our reserves? What will we do if it starts raining, if another front or two opens up in this war? What if we get drawn into new conflicts in Korea, Darfur, or Taiwan? I know that there are some
simulations that show six fictional characters and a miniature giant space hamster can defeat the forces of evil, but what are we going to do in reality?
Goe, because mostly they come at night. Mostly.
