Maybe We Do Need a Draft

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Maybe We Do Need a Draft

by Al Lorentz

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/lorentz.php?articleid=2841

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Let me begin by saying that I'm against a general draft for a number of reasons. Conscription makes free citizens into slaves and the property of the state. A draft also gives the state a large standing army, and having such an army creates too great a temptation for politicians to use it.

However, I find it patently un-American and unpatriotic to place the burden of war on a small stratum of society. I'm not speaking of just the actual blood and guts fighting, but the entire burden of war.

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Specifically, we need to draft, right now, the children of every politician in our federal government and every executive in our military industrial complex. We must also draft the wife or husband of each politician and defense contractor.

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For the record, most of us reservists didn't sign up for the money; we signed up to defend our country. But given that the last few wars we've been sent to fight have NOT been in defense of our Constitutional Republic, but rather of some politician's notion of "global security" or "national interest," pardon me if we get a little upset at the wrecking of our careers, our bank accounts and our families.
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There's a lot more. I thought it was a great read.