Most of the people behind it are knee-jerk military-action-opposers. What they are doing is trying to threaten a greater proportion of the American public with conscription in the hopes that they will withdraw support for military action. In other words they want to scare people into coming around to their way of thinking - which is extortion.
What I still can't figure out is why the heck someone interviewing Rangel or Hagel doesn't just say "if you want a bigger military why doesn't Congress just increase the caps on military size and provide the funding to do it and let more volunteers enlist??" That would expose this whole issue as the fraudulent extortion attempt that it is.
Of course not. Especially after that loon Jimmy Carter pardoned the last batch of draft dodgers.
I have quite a few family members that were either drafted or joined feeling that being drafted was imminent. (Like an uncle that knew if he was drafted he’d be going in the Army, but wanted to go into the Navy for whatever reason so he joined up.)
Anyway, they are pretty much unanimously peeved at going in only to have those that ran away being welcomed with open arms. They’ve pledged violent acts should someone start up that nonsense again. Maybe it’s just talk on their part but maybe it isn’t.
Not a bunch of idiots that serve 2 years and get out, hell you can't train them in 2 years.