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To: ansel12
It has everything to do with the draft.

Afraid to answer the questions?

I have seen the German army. There is compulsory service in Germany. The smart go elsewhere. The idiots get conscripted into the Military. Their military is pure crap and the officers have to avoid the enlisted men out of uniform of they will get beaten.

Professional soldiers have almost universally held contempt for draftees. Those who I served with who served with conscripts told of open drug use, slovenly barracks, unkept soldiers in unironed uniforms, bad discipline, bad morale, and a view of the Military as just one small step above Prison.

A Samurai had contempt for a peasant with a spear. The Samurai was a professional soldier - the peasant was a conscript.

The Knight had contempt for the spearman and archer. The Knight was a professional soldier - the spearman and archer were conscripts.

Do you believe in a Government of limited and enumerated powers?

Where do you see the power to compel military service enumerated?

Do you think compelled military service is compatible with recognition of the natural rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

109 posted on 02/13/2012 2:04:29 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: allmendream

I challenged your petty contempt for GIs who were drafted, 93% of the United States Army of WWII were draftees, in the Marine Corp, Navy, and Coast Guard, 1,730,194 were draftees in WWII. In Korea 84,000 Marines were drafted in just 15 months, by December of 1952, 63% of our Army enlisted fighting in Korea were draftees.

I spent time training with the German Fernsphäher in Germany and even longer with the French 13th Regiment during the 1980s, I thought they seemed to be fine soldiers.

I saw many fine draftees when I was regular army, they gave us the luxury of requiring by law that less than 2% of our military be female.

It is easy to take a fine young man and turn him into a motivated, well trained, fully qualified soldier, that is something that you cannot do with females.

Already in the Army Reserve, females are about 30% of our enlistments, the military is headed to be at least 50% female, but draft free which you seem pleased with.

You seem too taken with some kind of urban myth about the draft, and if you think that Knights and Samurai preferred females filling their ranks rather than handpicked men, then I have to doubt you.


111 posted on 02/13/2012 2:37:30 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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