A Draft?

[dunno260]

It won't pass, so I wouldn't worry about it. I would make for a terrible soldier as I question things too much. And I probably would ask and I probably would tell .

 

[CO Bob]

Recruitment rates are at high levels, and re-enlistment rates are at an all time high. A draft is not necessary. Chucky Rangel thinks that forcing people to join the military will make legislators think twice about starting a war. His opinion, and he is welcome to it. He is wring however.

The all volunteer army is more educated, more dedicated, and more successful than any modern army.

In 2004, the Democrats used the return of the draft as a threat to why you should not vote to reelect the President, saying he would re-install it. Now, here is the new Chairman of the Ways & Means commitee wanting to do just that. Interesting.

 

[provenlogic]

recruitment and reinlistment rates may be high, but actual new enlistments are down by tremendous degrees. you make it sound as if we have pleanty of soldiers, when the fact is, we do not. The army is hurting for recruits.

Not that i support a draft, i don't.

 

[mark1111]

I'm all for it and here's why:

The rich kids (republican) don't join the army, they get sent off to college.

Most kids can't afford college and the army seems like a good alternative. (a steady job and money for college)

A draft would send some kids of privilege to the army and of course their parents won't allow that, so the war would be over rather quickly.

 

[Leidian]

Isn't one of the best things about being gay that you don't have to join the army? (slightly sarcastic)

As to the real question, a draft for Iraq means I'm serving jail time or fleeing the country. If it was a real war on American soil then it would be my duty as an American to fight it. I'm not giving up my life for the bullshit we're doing overseas right now.

 

[star-warrior]

IMO, not being american, I don't know if my opinion counts, but if the people you're conscripting has a low moral, then you're gonna have an army of recruits who have a low moral. They plain don't wanna be there, and will probably end up doing something stupid and it's gonna be Abu Ghraib again, or maybe something worse.

 

[Theyoungman]

I would rather die...

 

[nakedboy]

There was a draft during the Vietnam War. Not having a draft isn't what would stop sons of politicians from going to this current war. Politicians would find ways around the draft and laws to keep their sons from being drafted in many cases. So what this article is presenting (in this thread) is weak and not the true issue of "why a draft/why not a draft?". The draft was eliminated as a "political" move, I believe, to calm a very frustrated United States at that time for a war that, like Iraq, could not be explained to the people especially with the tremendous loss of lives and injuries.

With the United States being so poorly managed, I'm very much against a military draft which would force individuals to be subjected to poor leadership and endanger their lives for reasons no one seems to be able to intelligently substantiate and be accountable for.

A draft, I also believe, would be political suicide for anyone who opposes it. But, that's another issue including the nuclear situation that has grown tremendously since Vietnam.

Watch this draft thing. It's going to be extremely interesting.

 

[MidnightPrism]

They don't allow homersekushuls so I ain't nervous.

 

[prettyboysing]

It's not necessarily the idea I detest, it's his reasoning. "Let's have a draft then we won't go to war?" WTF????

 

[nakedboy]

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[luminum]

I'm pleased to say that I'm a smidge too gay to fight in the army. Nothing like spearing someone with their own prejudice. Soon all the straight men will be gone and America will be filled with a greater percentage of women and gay men.

 

[mike_n_herrin]

i don't think the reasoning is sound at all. I would suspect the "rich" or who ever Rep. Charles Rangel thinks is avoiding getting into the military would get them there. I mean seriously. that's just not even logical. "they" would continue to avoid it if "they" really didn't want to go. I find it highly unlikely having a draft would reduce the likelyhood that we'd go to war. It doesn't appear to have slowed us down before why would it now?

 

[cocktales]

Rangel is so far out in left field that he has to "phone-home" to get an answer!

I thought the House voted last year on this proposal and they "almost" unanmiously voted NO!

Hey, I would NOT have gone into the military "if" I had NOT been drafted while the Viet Nam War was on-going!

I think the draft should NOT be held, unless we canNOT get the numbers required for a standing army otherwise!