Service? Sounds more like slavery.
Its a great way to build an anti war movement now that Obama is on his way out.
Eff ‘em.
Let them fall by the wayside.
If they can’t motivate themselves they are nothing worthless floor sweepings.
Ask any vet who had to serve alongside of whiny draftees who didn’t want to be where they were.
The bloated corrupt congressman Chuck Rangel has called for a draft for many years.
The reason: he wants to create an anti-war movement.
The Great Draft Dodge: Karl Eikenberry and what Americans lost when they stopped fighting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3237659/posts
How I Learned to Love the Draft
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3241898/posts
How many of the above mentioned men served in the armed forces?
The draft served a very good purpose in that it tore high school graduates away from mommy and daddy and showed them there was a world out there!
Once you are in the military you find you would rather be back with your military pals than home where everyone thinks you are still just a kid.
Three days leave is about all I could stand of a two week leave. I always felt more “free” back on the base.
Just say "No."
Sounds less like a crusade for freedom than an excuse for gutlessness.
Dana’s such a d-bag.
He takes his omnipresent “Bush’s fault” shot early in the article, saying that the only sacrifice Bush asked for after 9-11 was to continue spending money.
He then says that the solution is some form national service. Like Peace Corps and Americorps.
Afterwhich he notes that Bush EXPANDED both in the wake of 9-11.
???????
So the guy, and his editors, missed that he completely contradicts himself within the space of a few paragraphs. Are they idiots? Were they drunk? Both?
How about if we create a healthy economy with jobs.
National service should be fought with everything we have, because it will be a sort of militant training/indoctrination service, to create leftists and leftist cadre/leaders/activists.
The draft needs to be discussed, we cannot fight major wars with an expensive, 50% female military, that is heading in the direction of eventually becoming unionized, and just another federal career job measured by pay, benefits, and quality of life issues.
Puke.
Modern proposals far the draft have nothing to do with military need. There’s no need for uniformed cannon fodder these days.
This is about brainwashing, pure and simple. The government-knows-best nannies, from the Left and the Right, running wild.
A universal military draft won't work - there are simply too many 18-year-olds to absorb: 4.4 million this year. The entire active duty military is only 1.4 million. So we pick a subset - Milbank suggests a million. Still too many to absorb in a military that size, because remember, that's a million each year. So they do something else - AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, some other sort of "service" that isn't military. Now all of a sudden we aren't really talking about a draft and we certainly aren't really talking about the military. So what are we talking about?
Government employment for young people. And what exactly is this supposed to teach them? It certainly won't be selfless service to one's country, as a trip to any place of government employment will reveal - DMV, anyone? Post Office? How did the Job Corps do for promoting patriotism?
If we do pursue a military draft it won't be for these specious reasons, it will be because the nation's need exceeds the number of volunteers.