Democrats' New Plan for Special Forces

The Democrats gained the majority of seats in Congress in the past year, and have published their New Direction for America. It's a document that lays out their plan for making America "better."

While it's largely all party line material, there is one line that has quietly slipped by much of America, and it displays the depth of the lack of understanding many politicians have concerning our military. It's the third line of the first bullet in their New Direction:

"Double the size of Special Forces to destroy Osama Bin Laden and terrorist networks like al Qaeda."

Double the size of the Special Forces?? They obviously have no idea how unrealistic that goal is. It's hard enough to fill the current slots for men like that. Just by doubling the gene pool of potential SF candidates, you would inherently lower the standard. Quite honestly, there are just not enough of those kind of men out there. And of the ones that are out there, not all of them attend SF selection.

The 'special' part of Special Forces comes from their training, and you must attract men that want to excel under very hard standards. Not all soldiers want to do that, and simply by lowering the standards you will not gain the kind of soldiers that will make for an effective Special Forces.

see what else we're in for with the New Direction: http://www.speaker.gov/pdf/thebook.pdf