Pentagon Rethinking "Back-Door Draft"

The Bush administration's catastrophic wars in the Middle East have led to a kind of draft by disguise:

In an action branded a back-door draft by some critics, the military over the past several years has held tens of thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines on the job and in war zones beyond their retirement dates or enlistment length.

It is a widely disliked practice that the Pentagon, under new Defense Secretary Robert Gates, is trying to figure out how to scale back.

Some of our troops are on their 3 or 4 tour in Iraq:

"It has created terrible problems of morale," Lobel said last week. "It has in some cases made soldiers feel that they were duped or deceived in how they were recruited."

At this rate its only a matter of time before they restore the draft.