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Maybe We Do Need a Draft
(Al Lorentz, AntiWar.com, June 19, 2004)
With all this talk about a draft, I thought that, as a professional soldier, I'd throw my two cents worth in. 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. War is a sad event that, in a great nation like the United States, should be shared equally. First, there is the issue of whose children shall actually go and do the fighting and dying. I notice that the children of our political elite are not here with us in Iraq. I think we need a rather selective draft to fix this obvious oversight. 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.
[COMMENT]***** Great concept!!!*****

posted by A Curmudgeon 7:39 AM