Ain’t gonna happen!
I’m not going to debate whether this is wrong or right but I have a lot of doubt that the draft will ever be reinstated again. It would destroy any politician who voted for it. Even Charlie Rangel who has brought it to a vote multiple times has voted against it himself.
heck make everyone serve three years starting when they get out of high school no exceptions ...then all the politicians will have had to defend this country
Instead of a draft how about a law that requires all soldiers over seas be armed and required to return fire and any politician who orders otherwise be imprisoned for life.
The liberals are worried the normal male voluteers are not going into the anti Christian sodomy voluntarily?
Draft their butts, baby!
I would say our volunteer forces over the last 30 years are as fine an Army as ever took the field of battle. You don’t mess with that.
The draft should have never stopped. I doubt it will ever come back, too many would flee to avoid it.
I served when the draft was in place, and it was a DISASTER for the military. And the people that want to reinstate it almost universally want to destroy the magnificent military we have now. Forcing a bunch of goof-off, malcontents into the military insures a weak, and left leaning military - exactly what the scum-bag liberal function wants!
Before we even entertain debating this issue on the merits - We should note that the writer asserts opinion, not fact, and his fundamental premise is wrong. The children of the poor and disadvantaged DO NOT make up a disproportionate share of the all-volunteer force.
First, the draft is involuntary servitude.
Second, the military doesn’t want it. Professional warriors have always had contempt for conscripts.
Third, the constitution of a military should not be such that it is useless, as those proposing a draft would like to make it.
Unless there is a nuclear war a draft is not going to be acceptable to the American people. IT has to get to that level seriousness first before our youth are even willing to undergo the hardships of compulsory service.
We simply have spent far too long without any sight of warfare on home soil to be able to handle the reality of combat.
How does reinstating the draft end endless conflicts?
All that would do is have a bunch of solders who where conscripted to fight in endless conflicts.
I know it’s quaint of me,
But the 13th Amendment is short, and crystal clear.
“Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Libtards never seem to get tired of confusing the difference between initiation of force and voluntary actions and volitional choices.
Like Vietnam??
So...force our kids to server under obama? FO...
Agree.
We should reissue draft numbers. The numbers would be issued in accordance with the income of the person and/or their parents, women included.
Like Obama’s tax policies, the highest incomes would go to the top of the list. This would also include those $100,000+ college professors.
Also, those who can work but won’t, like the Occupy drones, would go to the top, as would all the college students campaigning for Obama. They should all be happy to carry their benefactor’s flag into battle.
There was never a draft in peace time, right?
There really isn’t a draft now, although I realize men still have to register.
At the rate things are going I wouldn’t stop that right now.
I also agree with the other person who said you can’t draft everybody, it’s just too many people.
And forget that Ameri-corps idea. We need to be downsizing gov’t, not expanding it in any way.
Clearly our current problems with Muslims/Sharia are not going to be solved on the battlefield. Our future problems with them.....well, the idea is to avoid future problems, but right now I’m not feeling too optimistic.
I served honorably.When I turned 18 there was no requirement to register for selective service. That changed a few years later (back dated!).
Why are females not required to register? Why has the military removed enlisted man clubs (allowed to drink at 18..and drinking age during my youth) from the military installations? Why does the military bow to muslim rules about alcohol in muslim countries?
I wave with my left hand.
Here’s a couple of alternatives. Pay soldiers in combat units the wage it takes to attract all you need. A PFC machine gunner should make over 100k a year.
Crazy? National need comes first? Then in wartime why don’t we pay the CEO and Board of Lockheed a colonels pay, or cancel their DOD contracts? And everyone on the production lines gets say, E-4 or E-5 pay. Do it for the duration.
How about congress and the president are immediately reduced in pay to the level of a PFC for the duration?
Funny, the only ones exected to practically donate their labor, and often their lives are the grunts. No draft. When theres a shortage of grunts, it’s funny how free marketeers, and socialists alike start waving the flag. It never crosses their mind that “you have to pay those wages to attract the talent you want”.
A draft is nothing more than use of gunpoint and force, to circumvent the wage the free market would set.