Actually one of our own is calling for the draft to be reinstated as well. And I have to say I agree with him. I enlisted in the Army in the middle of Gulf War I and was honorably discarged in '99 and plus I'm in my 40's so since I wouldn't be one of the people going maybe it's not my place to talk but - I think this is a time that people need to step up and do what we can for our country. In WWII everybody enlisted and fought for freedom. That's not happening now. The reservists I know are not gonna be re-upping when there time is up and the stop loss stuff is just not fair. We all need to do our part to defend freedom. Here's the link to the article by Senator Hagel and I pasted the first few paragraphs too.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38139
A Republican U.S. senator is calling for a return of the military draft so the cost of the Iraq operation could be borne by people of all economic strata.
Speaking at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on post-occupation Iraq, Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., said, "There's not an American ... that doesn't understand what we are engaged in today and what the prospects are for the future."
Hagel, a member of the committee, says all Americans should be involved in the effort.
"Why shouldn't we ask all of our citizens to bear some responsibility and pay some price?" Hagel said, arguing that restoring the draft would force "our citizens to understand the intensity and depth of challenges we face."
You have evidence that it was somehow inserted into the reservists' contract after they had read and signed it?
You said: "In WWII everybody enlisted and fought for freedom."
They did so because Hitler was indeed a grave threat, and American force was necessary to counter him. They would have done so absent the draft. The only purpose of the draft is to coerce citizens to fight for causes that they do not support and in which the government oversteps its proper authority.
The War on Terror has the public's support and the recognition of its necessity. This is why volunteer rates remain high and the very officials of our military, including Secretary Rumsfeld, consider the possibility of the draft to be an immense detriment to the professionalism and efficacy of our armed forces.
There is no duty to serve. There is only each individual's self-interest to resist terror. He can act on that self-interest in a multitude of ways, and his private decisions on the matter will provide a far more varied and multifaceted response to terror than the government's "compulsory obligations" can ever bring about. Some choose to mold doughboys. I, on the other hand, choose to mold public opinion.
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G. Stolyarov II