Generals say the darn'dest things

The war czar thinks a draft is "on the table" to address the vicious cycle of redeployments to Iraq and its undoubtable effects on the troops and their families. In a dictatorship, this might make sense, but a democracy will not tolerate a draft to sustain a war that only a quarter of the people support.

On the other hand entirely, national acceptance of a draft is a good criterion of minimum support for a war. If the country won't accept conscription to fight, maybe the country has no business starting a war in the first place.