LBJ gave the draft a bad name with his phoney war and Nixon was forced to go along with doing away with the it in a knee-jerk reaction to the Left.
The corruption should have been taken out of the system but doing away with the draft was a mistake.
Oh, and 18-year-old women should have to register along with the men.
Gobble, gobble!
The one nice thing about Rangel's proposal is that it provokes people into talking about things like this.
I agree with expanding the selective service registry, as well. While I was part of the volunteer Army, and am somewhat biased against the draft, I got a chance to work with a number of women and gays, who serve on a discretionary basis. (On a side note, gays, both male and female, tend to make better soldiers than straight women.)If there's to be a registry, I say register them all, every last man, woman, and homo. ;-)
So long as your physically capable, you should have your name in the hat. Saying that anyone CAN be forced to serve but only straight males HAVE to is inequitable, isn't it?
and lets not forget the Draft Riots during the Civil War in Rangels' own beloved New Yawk City...
Nonsense. Nixon correctly got rid of the draft because he needed to replace inefficient institutions with efficient ones if there was to be any hope of victory before his political problems (i.e. Watergate) finished him. Unfortunately, it was too little too late.