Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) wants to turn illegal aliens into American soldiers, citing poor recruitment numbers seen in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
Zachary Yost from the Mises Institute reports: The context for this supposed need to reinstate conscription is the estimate that were the US to enter into a large-scale conflict, every day it would likely suffer thirty-six hundred casualties and require eight hundred replacements, again per day. The report notes that over the course of twenty years in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US suffered fifty thousand casualties, a number which would likely be reached in merely two weeks of large-scale intensive combat.
