1. It's not just a "volunteer army", it's an "underpaid volunteer army".
Countries can always find people from all nations willing to risk death if the salary is high enough. For example, companies in Iraq can find mercenaries at the going price of perhaps $100K/year or more.
The problem with the neocons is that they want a volunteer army but they are unwilling to let capitalism set the price.
I've thought that since I realized what the PNAC goals were a couple of yrs ago. I didn't know what a 'stop loss' was then, but I knew that the troops sent over there were not ever going to get out, they'd be sent from one country to another.
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