Those embittered 2004 John Kerry supporters had it right: A movement is afoot to bring back the draft. Only it’s a different draft than the one they were fixated on. The comeback has to do with luring reluctant presidential candidates into the 2008 horserace. The last real draft movement to take a private citizen to the White House was inspired by Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. After Eisenhower’s historic military career, a groundswell of support emerged for him to run for president. But even then, it took Republican emissaries traveling to his NATO headquarters near Paris to convince Eisenhower to run....
