[Centurion2000]

Can you imagine? It's just a giant government jobs program.

If they won't fight, let them build infrastructure (highways and other stuff).

Of course I would put this in a better manner. No voting until a term of service is completed.

[walden]

You're missing the point-- I don't want to PAY them, out of my tax dollars, to do anything. I want them to go out and find REAL jobs in the REAL economy working for a REAL boss who can REALLY FIRE THEM. None of that happens under socialized plans of any sort, which is exactly what this is.

And, adding 4 million people to the military is ridiculous, and a year isn't long enough to learn anything to be of any use at all. So, I guess it's two years-- that makes 8 million of them. This is STUPIDITY SQUARED. I'm thinking that right now our military is about a million (that may be trigger-pullers only, can't remember.) So, we quintuple the number of people we're paying to do the job, to no purpose at all, just to make them SERVE. This is dumb.

Look, I'm sorry if you got drafted, but that isn't a good enough reason to buy into this huge socialist program.

[Black Agnes]

Kind of like Castro's 'Isla de Juvendad'. Where the 'youths' of Cuba go to finish the cane harvest. Mandatorily.

Yup, Just what we need. More Government intervention in our kids lives. More indoctrination. Not enough that they get them till they're 18, now they want them till they're 26. Joy. We can't afford the 'employment opportunities' programs and 'youth services' programs we have, much less quintuple the cost of our military.

Put another way, would you trust the leftist college kids currently at all the anti-war rallies with mil issued guns?

[MineralMan]

"Of course I would put this in a better manner. No voting until a term of service is completed."

Interesting. No vote without service. I expect that your idea will be roundly flamed by the libertarians in this thread.