Posted on 02/12/2016 5:02:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
You've gotta hand it to Ted Cruz. He might be a ruthlessly self-aggrandizing right-wing bomb-thrower who antagonizes everyone around him, but he also clearly has a rare mixture of good fortune and consummate skill at marshaling his insatiable ambition to the festering cultural alienation that pervades the grassroots of the conservative movement.
Over the past week, Cruz's good luck and talent for exploiting culture war grievances have given him the perfect issue to use and abuse as the fight for the Republican nomination heads into the South. I'm talking about the question of whether women should be required to register with the Selective Service so that they (like men) could be conscripted in the unlikely event that the military draft was reinstated.
For the injection of this issue into the Republican race we can thank ABC News' Martha Raddatz, who at last Saturday's GOP debate asked Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush (but not Cruz) where they stood on the issue. Both of them came down on the side of including women, as did Chris Christie, who volunteered his opinion.
Cruz remained silent....
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
Women in the draft... eminent domain... cursing..... Truly the most pressing issues of our lifetime.
Let’s here it for our festering cultural alienation. It’s only because we see things crumbling and liberals aren’t educated enough to notice and think we’re just really stubborn.
If men have to serve than so should women. They can serve in some sort of National Service.
Whoever becomes President, they’re going to have to put a smackdown on the Pope because he got the illegals’ back and that’s by design.
Right now a starlet in a non-ad is all over youtube and free media coverage. Most positive free media coverage Cruz has received in this race.
Nobody in pro-military SC is paying any attention to drafting women right now.
We haven’t even drafted men in how many years????
Why can’t women be drafted into support roles? Stupid issue for Cruz to pursue.
Define “ support roles.”
.Why can’t women be drafted into support roles? Stupid issue for Cruz to pursue...
Wouldn’t we need a draft first? Non issue.
A little dated but females are a part of our military.
Lots of jobs they could do if a draft was necessary to
allow males in the more combat positions.
Total numbers:
— About 203,000 in 2011, or 14.5% of the active-duty force of nearly 1.4 million.
— That number comprises about 74,000 in the Army, 53,000 in the Navy, 62,000 in the
Air Force and 14,000 in the Marine Corps.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/24/us/military-women-glance/
Nobody’s being drafted, and the odds of it happening are infinitesimal.
So you’re okay with your daughter, sister or mother being conscripted into the infantry?
I was on a draft board when Desert Storm happened and we were **this** close to drafting physicians, nurses and other medical specialists.
Did you even bother to read my post?? I said nothing about infantry.
Not since 1973. However, after I served two enlistments I was required to register for Selective Service.
Our military is much more combat effective with about 3 % max female. Nurses and Admin types, That is it.
They won’t have a choice like you postulated, they’ll be put wherever they’re needed, just like men.
I don’t know about medical professionals but wouldn’t reinstituting a general draft require an act of Congress? It would be hugely unpopular, and wreck the finest military in the world. Political suicide.
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