Rangel has also lobbied to bring back the draft, an idea with which I’m beginning to agree. One reason we react so casually is because the only people with a real stake in the carnage are volunteers (and their families, of course), some now being shipped over for their third and fourth tours. If we reactivated selective service (for men AND women), we’d at least have an investment in this mess by a cross-section of the citizenry, and the issues would mean more than slapping a magnet on the rear end of your SUV. Furthermore, it’s unlikely that we’d ever have gone into Iraq in the first place, considering the stink that would have been raised by several million disgruntled conscripts. If the long-term consequences of terrorism are as dire as the administration claims, if it truly threatens our security and freedom, then there should be a much wider participation mounted to oppose it.
Yours truly, The last New Jersey draftee (so far).
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A Rant on the Draft
Rangel has also lobbied to bring back the draft, an idea with which I’m beginning to agree. One reason we react so casually is because the only people with a real stake in the carnage are volunteers (and their families, of course), some now being shipped over for their third and fourth tours. If we reactivated selective service (for men AND women), we’d at least have an investment in this mess by a cross-section of the citizenry, and the issues would mean more than slapping a magnet on the rear end of your SUV. Furthermore, it’s unlikely that we’d ever have gone into Iraq in the first place, considering the stink that would have been raised by several million disgruntled conscripts. If the long-term consequences of terrorism are as dire as the administration claims, if it truly threatens our security and freedom, then there should be a much wider participation mounted to oppose it.
Yours truly,
The last New Jersey draftee (so far).
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