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"A few more months of bad recruiting numbers and this is going to be more than just a data base."

DRAFT THE PEACENIKS! DRAFT THE PEACENIKS!

They're already angry and looking for a fight and claiming to be cannon fodder. We may as well give them a job....

/SMIRK

I know your being sarcastic, but in reality, a draft wouldn't work these days. Putting aside the problems that many Conservatives have with a draft, and putting aside the fact that it would mean an end to Republicans in the White House and Republican control of the House/Senate (which is not necessarily a bad thing - we could use the opportunity to rebuild the GOP in a more Conservative light), there would be two problems with a draft.

1)Would you want your son or daughter to have to rely on draftees? This isn't the 1940s or even the 1960s where we still had a lot of people who had a good upbringing and who weren't corrupted. This is 2005. Many of our best and brightest of this generation are already serving. Many of those who are in this generation might not be the best choice for drafting - poor upbringings and poor values/morals.

2)It would easily be dodged (and I'm not talking Canada). $10-$20 worth of pot, one failed drug test, and they are ineligible. That would place a large burden upon those who are honest and who would have probably considered serving in the first place. Just as many liberals used college in the '60s to dodge the draft, they would use $20 worth of pot to dodge this one.