Bring back the Military Draft....Think these asshats Republicans will keep playing games

[Boxerfan]

If they have actual skin in the "game"...

I believe the lack of coverage,shared sacrifice has made war far too simple to wage-from an armchair.

[Barack_America]

1. They're too old to have any "skin in the game". Too rich to have their kids' skin in the game.

And too callous to care about anybody else's skin.

[Scootaloo]

4. Well, so is the poster

As is always the case when DU'ers demand the draft.

Fucking morons, the lot of 'em.

[atreides1]

8. Being rich don't cut it anymore.

Boards are made up differently then they were...all medical exams are done by the military...there are no exemptions that are permanent.

Even the education exemption is completely different then it was...and if an exemption is granted the next person has to come from the same area...


I was a board member when I lived in Tucson...the changes make getting an exemption very difficult...because you have to convince the entire board of people from completely different walks of life...

[sharp_stick]

2. They never went and neither did

any of their pathetic offspring unless it was voluntary. These kind of assholes always wrote the conscription laws with deferments and other outs for themselves.

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. Even if the draft is reinstated

the rich and influential will find a way to keep themselves and their families out of harms way. Bushy and MittWit are prime examples.

[former9thward]

5. No draft.

Not needed and not wanted. If you wish to join there are plenty of places around to do that. I did, it was a good experience. Go for it.

[patrice]

6. No! Never! They show that they WILL turn on their own class. It's only more encouragement to go

to war whenever anyone wants to.

The ONLY terms I would consider would be if there were an equally funded Department of Peace that draftees could enlist in with little or NO options for crossover enlistments between the two departments, "Defense" and Peace, and some parallel organizational structures, such as, something equal to the UCMJ that is the legal code for the Department of Peace.

[Panasonic]

7. Rmoney's sons should be the first to draft

and any other chickenhawk's sons, daughters and grandchildren needs to be the first to be drafted into the man's army.

Then these people (if they survive) can tell their parents/grandparents that they're fucking idiots.

[SIDURI]

9. It's a heart-heavy thought, but one I've had for different reasons

Toward the end of Bush-Cheney's regime I began to wonder about the difference in young peoples' response to Bush's war(s) and the Vietnam war, when I was a high school and college student. Every young man I knew felt the cold wind of the Draft, regardless of their place in the lottery. They all felt it. They all had to decide what they would do about it -- an existential decision.

The ones with skin in the game will NEVER be the 1% or even the top 5%. WW II, when families like the Roosevelts and the Kennedys both had offspring in the military services, was an exception. During the Vietnam war, the Texas Air National Guard and other cushy deployments was where the sons of privilege spent their time.

I participated in peaceful demonstrations against the invasion of Iraq many many times. All ages were represented, from grannies to infants in strollers. But the energy and anger of the youth was somehow lacking. Was it because they as a demographic group had no skin in the game? Was it because none -- and I mean none -- of them felt the Draft breathing down their necks?

I have no answer to this. I certainly never thought I'd be questioning the volunteer army concept -- well, until I realized that what we have is an economic Draft, one that makes the denizens of impoverished regions and impoverished schools look at the military as the only way to get ahead. Inequity, again.

Too sad.

Siduri

[2pooped2pop]

10. the rich, for the most part, will still not have any skin

in the game. If they don't have a law that excuses them from the draft, they will buy one.

Only the middle and lower class go to war. The rich go in as officers if they go at all.

[hack89]

11. We can't afford a military big enough to make the draft fair.

to make the shared sacrifice fair the military needs to be much larger. As small (relatively speaking) as it is now and with so many volunteers wanting to join there is not much room for draftees.

[kathman-duzi]

12. I totally agree with this statement.

And remove the loopholes for the likes of special interests religious groups with the one exclusion of conscientious objectors with a record of more than one meeting attended. Also medically challenged and incapable of serving in some capacity.

No more arm chair chicken hawks like cheney, awol bush baby, rush limpbaugh cystis ass, ted nugent, pretty much the entire low hanging fruit of the gop of that era.