Is the Obama White House going to re-institute the military draft?

Republican Liberty Caucus ^ | 1/6/2009 | Publicola and Historicus

[obamaisandrogynous]

Media commentary today and in recent days indicates that there is the possibility that the Obama White House will reinstitute the draft as part of its “stimulus plan” to “create” several million new jobs in the U.S.

One wonders how the idealistic, youthful, leftist Obama voters — most of whom don’t even know the names of the capitals of their own states, let alone the capitals of foreign countries — will react to conscription.

A principle of liberty is that the armed forces should be composed of volunteers. The U.S. military embraces this position as well, arguing, for decades, that an all-volunteer force is motivated and will do its job more effectively than conscripts. One of the reasons there are fewer combat deaths today in Iraq and Afghanistan than there were in past wars is that the soldiers are professionals.

But, Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., the president elect, and incoming White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, support the draft. In a radio interview, in 2006, in fact, Emanuel came out publicly in favor of the draft, at a time when he was in the leadership of the House Democrats. “There’s nothing wrong with all Americans having civil defense training — doing civil service,” said Emanuel. “That will give them a sense of what it means to be an American. The state National Guard units can be a vehicle for that. ”

Emanuel said the age of service would be “between 18 and 25.”

[hunter112]

Some leaders of Black Dem Caucus have been in favor of draft to equalize race and socioecon class demographics of military.

I think that's just been a gimmick by black Democrats who are in super-safe districts to embarrass the GOP in other districts. Lyndon Johnson turned from being loved by the libs (because of civil rights legislation) to being hated, not only over Vietnam, but because of the draft connected with it. That's way too recent a lesson for even a Rat to forget.

I also think that Zero will suffer a similar fate if he sends more troops to Afghanistan, the moonbats all believe that is something he said during the campaign just to get elected by a mushy middle that wanted to see some semblance of strength against McCain. There will be calls for an immediate pullout from both Iraq and Afghanistan, and the liberals will grow ever more shrill with Barry with each passing day that it does not happen.

I'm old enough to remember thirty-two years ago, the liberals were very excited about having the Johnson-Nixon-Ford era over and done with, and every time Jimmy Carter looked like any kind of a continuation of that era, they started criticizing him. By the time Reagan took him on in 1980, he had much, much less support within his own party, and the late night comedians were roasting him constantly.