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To: JeanS
I think there are many things to be said in favor of the draft, but one of the ironic things is that the very reason the draft was scrapped was that it supposedly disproportionately affected minorities. The argument was that minorities were not usually in college or employed in some vital industry, so they couldn't get deferments, etc.

That was nonsense then, and Rangel's latest contradictory argument is nonsense now.

However, that said, I don't think a draft is a bad idea, although women should not be drafted for combat. But I can't see that it would hurt anybody in this country to spend two years after high school with a whole bunch of different people in a completely different part of the country, having to learn to cope and to do something, no matter how modest it may appear, that contributes to our country.

Frankly, everybody I've known who was drafted has regarded it as a positive experience, no matter how much they hated it at the time.
6 posted on 01/05/2003 3:16:55 PM PST by livius
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To: livius
If I have heard about this correctly Rangel is proposing that there be no deferments for anyone.It really seems to me that this is one big effort to revive the anti-war movement as I'm sure there will be many parents who will scream bloody murder if this became a reality.Make any sense?
17 posted on 01/05/2003 3:31:22 PM PST by Drippy
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To: livius
"Frankly, everybody I've known who was drafted has regarded it as a positive experience, no matter how much they hated it at the time."

Except the dead ones, of course.

50 posted on 01/05/2003 11:03:23 PM PST by Indrid Cold
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To: livius
Everyone who earns an honest living does that. To communists like Rangel, it doesn't count unless the government is directing it.
66 posted on 01/06/2003 5:40:53 AM PST by steve-b
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