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Military Shouldn't Be Empowered to Draft People's Daughters – or Their Sons
American Thinker.com ^
| November 18, 2017
| Jesse Hathaway
Posted on 11/18/2017 6:19:39 AM PST by Kaslin
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:19:39 AM PST
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
The military doesn’t draft anyone. A Draft Board of your neighbors and fellow citizens does.
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:22:46 AM PST
by
Bryanw92
(Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
To: Kaslin
Ya, all this equality stuff could get a girl killed!
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:22:54 AM PST
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: Kaslin
In the mid 1960’s my mom said the same thing when three of her son’s were drafted.
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:28:25 AM PST
by
WeWaWes
(When I look in the mirror I see an elephant--a bad ass elephant)
To: Kaslin
What a horrible thought ! Forcing Millenials and Snowflakes to do something for America.
Oh! The inhumanity!!
/s
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:36:35 AM PST
by
Vlad The Inhaler
(United We Stand - Divided We Fall. Remember: Diversity is the opposite of unity.)
To: Kaslin
The U.S. government has destroyed any credibility it ever had to compel its citizens to serve in the military.
This idea that the Federal government could draft people to fight military campaigns to prop up Islamic governments in Third World sh!t holes is pathetic.
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:42:04 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
To: Kaslin
I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain! ― Robert A. Heinlein
To: Simon Green
I was a draftee....every able bodied person enjoys the freedom of this country. While I much prefer a voluntary force in extraordinary times some will be called to serve when needed. It is neither new nor uncommon. It is the price of freedom!!!
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:48:14 AM PST
by
ontap
To: Kaslin
“Military Shouldn’t Be Empowered to Draft People’s Daughters or Their Sons”
**********************
???
For a few still living today...that doesn’t leave...much...
++++++++++++++
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:49:45 AM PST
by
gunnyg
("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
To: Vlad The Inhaler
I don’t want people in the military who don’t want to be there and aren’t qualified. Enough affirmative action/incompetents/trannies/fags/feminists/idiots in the military as it is. Leave the military for the qualified, who want to be there.
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:52:03 AM PST
by
little jeremiah
(Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
To: gunnyg
Anyone noticed the headlines lately?
All the headline-making bots must be going bad w/the same expiration date...er sumpthin’...........
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:56:12 AM PST
by
gunnyg
("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
To: little jeremiah
Having been drafted myself, I support the idea of citizen soldiers. The mentality is “okay, we’re here, so let’s get the job done and go home.” Historically it has proven effective.
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posted on
11/18/2017 6:57:10 AM PST
by
Spok
To: ontap
I agree that there are times when it’s necessary. I would like to see the former draftees make up the boards. You men understand whether or not the cause is worth it. Sure, there would be plenty of, “I went, you should too.” But there might be plenty of men saying, “This War” is not worth the price of these young men.
Congress was supposed to do that. But we cannot count on them anymore.
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posted on
11/18/2017 7:16:40 AM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(Burn. It. Down.)
To: little jeremiah
that’s one way to look at it.
WWII had more draftees than Korea and Korea had more draftees than Vietnam.
I aint sayin, I’m just sayin.
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posted on
11/18/2017 7:21:06 AM PST
by
stylin19a
(Best.Election.Ever.)
To: Alberta's Child
The best chance to stop our foreign military follies is a Draft. Until everyone has some skin in the game, the 99% who don’t serve just don’t care.
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posted on
11/18/2017 7:22:31 AM PST
by
Wolfie
To: Spok
"Having been drafted myself, I support the idea of citizen soldiers. " And those currently serving voluntarily are not citizen soldiers??
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posted on
11/18/2017 7:25:06 AM PST
by
Wonder Warthog
(The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
To: Kaslin
Arguably the DRAFT, which dictated the course of my life, is MOOT.
By that I mean, Saddam Hussein learned that MASSED armies are impossible to defend against a killing machine like the US Military. And, the USM employed massive restraint!
So, if MASS armies are no longer possible given modern warfare then the DRAFT is just another irrelevant subject for politicians and feminist’s to pontificate about.
To: Cen-Tejas
Even Israel quietly admits the mass military draft is for social purposes and is not required by military necessity.
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posted on
11/18/2017 7:38:07 AM PST
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: Wolfie
Good point, but that never stopped our foreign military follies in Korea and Vietnam — did it?
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posted on
11/18/2017 7:41:13 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
To: Alberta's Child
Well, an isolationist peace monger raises it’s ugly head
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posted on
11/18/2017 7:44:24 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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