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You're preaching to the choir! I would prefer that the military stay all-volunteer and that we not even be compelled to register for the draft. I think it is no coincidence that since Vietnam (when the draft was last used), our military has had success after success. In no way do I mean to marginalize the service of those who were drafted, but I think all-volunteer is the way to go and it is now proven as a superior way to go.

But since males are currently required to register for the draft, I think it is only right that women be compelled to as well, being that they have established themselves as an important part of our military. Of course, I'd just as soon do away with the whole thing (draft registration).

BTW, when I got out of active duty with the Marine Corps in 1985, one of the first things I had to do was go to the local post office and re-register for the draft.

Your logic and reasoning are like a ray of sunshine on this thread. Most importantly you have framed the argument the way it should be presented. Cathy Young's piece is too cluttered with her feminine bias.

The NOW nags should be the ones screaming support for your argument but, at the end of the day, they "want to have their cake and eat it too."

You're preaching to the choir!

Didn't mean to sound preachy Boss but the line of your's that I plucked out was just very convenient for me to use to make my point which was more of a general statement to all. Since it was your quote I used it naturally got addressed to you in reply - sort of how this forum works, I guess I should have addressed it to all.

Regarding Viet Nam I am not sure that the whole mess was as bad as it was entirely because of the draft but rather by the way it was run from D.C. That said a friend of mine volunteered for special forces in Nam because he thought he would live longer being with proffessionals who wanted to be doing what they were doing instead of being in with a bunch of draftee screw ups who didn't want to be there. He also said he believes half our casulaties were unneccessary result of drug users, like truck drivers driving off roads and killing people in accidents and just plain drug overdoses. He also said that some very unproffessional people got people killed in combat needlessly - like not reading maps correctly and being where they didn't belong and getting taken for the enemy and being rained on by our artillery. Anyhow that's how he saw it in '70-71.