Boston Globe: A military draft might awaken us
A piece by Joan Vennochi says "Reinstate the military draft and see how quickly the United States ends its war in Iraq."... If we feared our children were next up to be gutted like fish, we might be less likely to shake our heads at crazy antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan. If turning 18 meant your kid's boots on the ground, a resolution to pull troops out of Iraq by a certain date might grab more than six votes in the US Senate. ...
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 12:09 PM
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A conscript Army is useless. It's as obsolete as the calvery was in 1939.
What we have done, that's good and democratic is mobilize the guard and reserves. Something LBJ never did during Vietnam. It's brought this war home in a way Vietnam never did....
...the other good thing we could do is spread the ROTC into more elite institutions. It's shameful this not an option at so many Universities now.
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