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In reply to the discussion: I'm Sorry... If We Are To Go Down This Syrian/ISIS Road To War... Reinstitute The Draft [View all]pnwmom
(108,980 posts)36. Didn't we learn ANYTHING from Vietnam? We lost 50,000 Americans in a war with a draft.
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A deeply unpopular war that went on despite a draft and despite YEARS of massive protests. The reason the war ended when it did was because Nixon got entangled with the beginnings of Watergate; not because the protests succeeded.
Having a draft will solve nothing -- just give the war machine that much easier access to bodies. Forget that.
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WillyT
Nov 2015
OP
Do what anyway? Draft women before there is an ERA? Who are the bums you want to "show"?
pnwmom
Nov 2015
#50
What you say makes sense. But I had just read the opposite somewhere. In the meantime,
pnwmom
Nov 2015
#98
Are you sure about that? Is racial discrimination allowed among private employers?
pnwmom
Nov 2015
#100
Only if the politicians and the MIC Magnates are at the front of the line
dickthegrouch
Nov 2015
#73
I don't get the idea "draft Jim if he wants war. Or if he's too old, draft his
MillennialDem
Nov 2015
#81
In This Case... You Don't Have To Win The Vote, You Just Have To Win The Argument
WillyT
Nov 2015
#7
If you have a point, it was lost the your blame-the-victim manure you smeared all over this forum.
Maedhros
Nov 2015
#13
Never going to happen. I don't think people should be forced into committing murder.
YOHABLO
Nov 2015
#9
Yeah... I Watched My Friends Older Brothers Get "Picked" By The Lottery System...
WillyT
Nov 2015
#22
The theory that providing the war machine with conscripts will prevent war
Warren Stupidity
Nov 2015
#114
Didn't we learn ANYTHING from Vietnam? We lost 50,000 Americans in a war with a draft.
pnwmom
Nov 2015
#36
I agree with that. Besides, are we really getting the right people when those that wanna bomb
Hoyt
Nov 2015
#51
Charles Rangel figured it out years ago. It's one thing to institute a draft when you are up to your
Hoyt
Nov 2015
#58
I believe Rangel is right about a draft where everyone is subject to being called.
Hoyt
Nov 2015
#107
If we reinstate the draft, then we need to start calling numbers where we left off in '72
Scootaloo
Nov 2015
#55
I absolutely agree with this and I'm too old to be drafted at least under the current system (35)
MillennialDem
Nov 2015
#83
Actually, the deferments were there from the very beginning, but as the war dragged on
pnwmom
Nov 2015
#92
Surely we only need to do that if more troops are required than in the existing army?
Nye Bevan
Nov 2015
#65
Even if that were an option, I want to see the dictators of the draft enlist first!
akbacchus_BC
Nov 2015
#91
Sure, great! But this time, let's start with people in their 60s and early 70s, and work backwards.
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2015
#105
Why? Our Military is getting enough volunteers to fight the war on terror already.
ileus
Nov 2015
#111
It's always straight white men who are too old to serve, never served when young enough and who
Bluenorthwest
Nov 2015
#117