The case for the draft: America can remain the world's superpower. Or it can maintain its current all-volunteer military. It can't do both.(Cover Story) From: Washington Monthly | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: Carter, Phillip; Glastris, Paul | COPYRIGHT 2005 Washington Monthly Company. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The United States has occupied many foreign lands over the last half century--Germany and Japan in World War II, and, on a much smaller scale, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo in the 1990s. In all these cases, we sponsored elections and handed-off to democratic governments control of countries that were relatively stable, secure, and reasonably peaceful.

In Iraq, we failed to do this, despite heroic efforts by U.S. and coalition troops. The newly-elected Iraqi government inherit...