“Because of the technology used in a lot of the services now, it would take too much time and effort to train some draftee—who didn’t want to be there and would fight every step of the way.”
Yeah, you got that right, just like they did in WWI WWII and Korea?
However, they did not have predators, they didn't have tanks that looked like spaceships.
AND, they had a clear enemy.
As a friend of mine who is going back for the third time soon, said to me: “The first time I was there the enemy was in front of me, and the troops were behind me. The second time, it wasn’t that clear.”
And he digs this stuff.
I cannot imagine some of the dopey guys in my daughters’ classes making it through boot camp. Of course, it would do them some good, but they would need to get the crap kicked out them a couple of times.
Finally, just talking about a draft is going to drive the campuses nuts this fall. Nothing like a couple hundred thousand braless protesters to get congresses attention.
Can’t you just feel the sixty-something boomers getting the tie-dye shirts and bell bottoms out of the closet for a good ole Viet Nam moratorium bash?