A Volunteer’s Lament

Published August 29, 2007 6:58pm ET



Newsweek runs the piece from Cpl. Mark Finelli, a noncommissioned Marine Corps officer who served in Iraq from July 2005 to February 2006. Finelli bemoans the failure of the Bush administration to institute a draft in the months after 9/11, or more generally to ask Americans to make any kind of sacrifice on behalf of the war.

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