Jim Webb Wants to Buy You a Drank « The Washington Independent
Via an approving James Joyner and [Nathan Hodge](http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/03/let-troops-get-their-drink-on-senator-says/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+WiredDangerRoom+(Blog+-+Danger+Room)&utm_content=Google+Reader), the Virginia senator, ex-Marine and ex-Navy secretary thinks it’s time to let troops drink in war zones “for stress relief.” There would obviously need to be alcohol restrictions aplenty, especially when deployed to Muslim countries, but Webb notes that there’s a disturbing amount of prescription-drug abuse and other forms of self-medication. Alcohol might be less dangerous.
And if U.S. servicemembers were permitted to drink during a conscript military, doesn’t it stand to reason that an all-volunteer force will be more professional and disciplined in their alcohol consumption?
