The way it was during Vietnam. Thats how George Dubya Bush avoided risking his life in a war.

But now that its HIS war, the first place they go to send people to the front is the national guard.

It's not like they had a lot of choice. If we are going to implement the neoconservative PNAC foreign policy we need a tenfold increase in the size of our military.

GW turned Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy doctrine on it's head. Instead of speaking softly and carrying a big stick, he shouted loudly and greatly overestimated how big his stick actually was.