REP. MARK KIRK:
I do because if you look at the record of the U.S. military in World War I, in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, you see large number of American casualties. Because the business of war was in training mainly 18 and 19-year-old young men and sending them into battle and hopefully we would win if we lost fewer numbers of men than the other side.
When we went to the volunteer military, we built an entirely new institution, which has been phenomenally successful.– winning battles in Desert Storm and Kosovo at extraordinary low loss of life with such highly trained and motivated volunteers. The United States has been able to prevail and to be carrying out our duties to the United Nations with very, very few Americans getting killed and that is good news for American mothers who are worried about their kids in uniform and we want to make sure they are able to accomplish their mission but to come home safely.
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