“Morning Joe” panel: Second look at instituting a public-service draft for young Americans?

Hot Air ^ | February 15, 2013 | Allahpundi

[2ndDivisionVet]

This one’s long but stick with it. The good stuff doesn’t start happening until after we’re treated to the thousandth iteration of Charlie Rangel’s master plan to end war as we know it by reinstituting a military draft which virtually no one supports and which Congress will never again feel safe voting for. A draft which, incidentally, he thinks should now include women:

“Now that women can serve in combat they should register for the Selective Service alongside their male counterparts,” Rangel said in a statement. “Reinstating the draft and requiring women to register for the Selective Service would compel the American public to have a stake in the wars we fight as a nation. We must question why and how we go to war, and who decides to send our men and women into harm’s way.”…

“The Congress never gets a chance to vote up and down on these war questions. Every president just puts our kids in harm’s way and we just foot the bill, but there’s no real sacrifice in what’s going on. Less than 1 percent of American families are involved in the military and they really pay the price for it,” he said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

He’s right that Congress doesn’t always get a chance to vote. They didn’t get to vote on Libya, for instance, because King Barack chose to ignore the War Powers Resolution. They did get to vote to authorize military force against Al Qaeda after 9/11; that one passed 420-1, with Charlie Rangel in the majority. To understand his position here, though, you need to realize two things. One: He thinks being a soldier is something only the poor and uneducated do because they’re not qualified to do anything else...

[2ndDivisionVet]

I thank Mr. Rangel for his service and very little else.

[GeronL]

State Slavery

[blam]

Imagine what it will be like trying to get 'the boyz in the hood' to work.

This is just another way to give our tax money to Obama voters.

[jeffc]

I can see them now, in their brown shirts swearing allegiance to Hussein Obama.

[Bryan]

The author is right. Very few people in Congress would vote to reinstate the draft. But not merely because it would be unpopular with the voters. Lots of congressmen have teenage sons who, if drafted, would most likely find a way to dodge the draft. And then the congressmen would have to explain that inconvenient fact during televised debates.

On the other hand, requiring women to register for the draft isn’t such a bad idea. It will teach young women that there are consequences for voting for Democrats.

[RedMDer]