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Should the U.S. be better prepared to reinstate military conscription?
Federal News Network ^ | 9/1924 | Tom Temin

Posted on 09/21/2024 7:10:18 PM PDT by hardspunned

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To: hardspunned
It won't be like the Vietnam era.

The sort of people who were the most gung-ho back then will be the biggest draft resisters.

And in the military itself there will be major mutinies among conscripts, not just fragging.

61 posted on 09/22/2024 6:53:34 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: dljordan

A signature at gunpoint... LOL. That about says it all.


62 posted on 09/22/2024 9:19:04 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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This country will never see another military draft in our lifetimes.

The senior enlisted ranks in the military today do not even possess the skill set to train, lead, and discipline malcontent conscripts who don't want to be there. These people would be a liability to mission readiness.

Yes, I understand many would answer the call and serve honorably but many others would not and these individuals would be an absolute toxic presence to the rest. We won't shoot them so we'd have to build military prisons to lock them away. Prisons cost money and need guards and food, resources that would be taken from the budget elsewhere.

And then what's the point of drafting people just to send them to the brig for insubordination or worse, sabotage.

No, I agree. There will not be a draft.

63 posted on 09/22/2024 9:29:53 AM PDT by Drew68
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No, I agree. There will not be a draft.


That’s how they’ll get rid of the white people, make them the cannon fodder. And they’ll be more than happy to give the resistors the “Private Slovik Treatment”.


64 posted on 09/22/2024 9:30:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: hardspunned

The 13A clearly bans the military draft. That should settle it.


65 posted on 09/22/2024 9:57:06 AM PDT by Diversity Is Our Weakness
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That’s how they’ll get rid of the white people

They're not going to get rid of the white people.

They need us to pay for everything.

No white people, no gibmees.

66 posted on 09/22/2024 11:01:55 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

They’ll just take the money after they kill them.


67 posted on 09/22/2024 11:02:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DesertRhino

“A signature at gunpoint... LOL. That about says it all.”

I’ve often wondered what would have happened if I had refused. Of course I volunteered.


68 posted on 09/22/2024 12:33:51 PM PDT by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: hardspunned

criminal wars predicated on profits... no thanks


69 posted on 09/22/2024 1:58:21 PM PDT by Third Person
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