The Draft

In case you haven’t heard, there is a talk of bringing back the draft again. It literally makes me shiver. The idea of taking men away is scary enough. The idea of sending them off to battle bothers me. It bothers me as much war does. The draft takes young men and maybe even young women and turns them into instant fighters. Not all men are cut out to be soldiers, so what happens to them. What happens to men who refuse to spill the blood of another human? It’s sad enough to see our people dying in Iraq. The draft would just allow the government to replace dead soldiers with living fighters. It plucks sons and fathers right from their busy lives, their loved ones, and turns them into servicemen.

What was this congressman thinking about getting the draft back? He said that he is using the draft to deter politicians from declaring war. It is so freaking stupid. It won’t stop us from going to war again. If the draft was going to stop us from going to war, why did we fight in Vietnam ( sp? ). I don’t believe anyone could see it as a tool for keeping us off the battlefield. We have to honest about this who draft thing.

Questions, I want answers to:

1.Are gay guys going to be drafted?

2.If a person has pre-existing health problems will they be drafted?

3.Will women be drafted?

4.What about teachers?

5.What about college students?

6.Why now?

Comments: 7

John M. Nov 20, 2006, 11:26pm EST

This isn't the first time he's proposed this. He's really and anti-war congressman. He thinks that if more wealthy parents had to send off their kids, we'd be out of Iraq in a week. The last time he proposed it, one other representative supported it. I don't think we have to worry.

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Wendy Hanawalt Nov 21, 2006, 10:38am EST

Yeah, I don't think there's cause for concern. I think he's right: if there was a draft, we NEVER would have gotten into this war, because we simply would not have allowed it. He has stated that his concern is that the all volunteer Army, with its financial enticements, preys unequally on the poor. I think he has a definite point. That doesn't mean I want the draft: it DOES mean that I think we should care as much about the boys and girls serving now as we would about ourselves or our own sons and daughters.

I heard on the news today that there is absolutely no support for this in Congress. Zippo. Zilch. Nada. These people know a popular issue when they see one, and this ain't it.

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John M. Nov 21, 2006, 11:56am EST

Well it's not just the politicians kids, but the kids of the middle class who aren't nearly as affected as the poor.

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Charles A. B. Nov 21, 2006, 4:46pm EST

Thanks for commenting!

I guess what got me about the whole mess is the idea that the draft would deter war. Even if a few politicians kids went to war, it wouldn't change things.

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