(November 20, 2012 at 11:36 am)festive1 Wrote: Well how do other countries ensure military service (I'm thinking countries with mandatory military service, like the Swiss or Israel-perhaps Israel is a bad example at the present time)? If the Draft came back, the loopholes for the wealthy would have to be closed. I can't imagine Congress being too excited to send in our troops if a few of their kids would be put in harms' way.
Think of it this way: If there was a mandatory draft, without exemption, would Congress have ever decided to invade Iraq based on the evidence we had at the time? I don't think so.
Not practical. We are not the Swiss. The Swiss keep government issued assualt rifles and machine guns at most family homes and yet still have the gumption not to litter prestine streets with hundred of dead school children. Land of 2nd amendment and home of the brave fall far short of this form of courage.
Also, it is impossible to pass any draft without examptions. This is a country where a moron can come within a hair's width of the nuclear button by running on the platform of putting down the "47%", and accusing investment in public good as being nothing more than unwarranted "gifts" from the deserving to the undeserving. The powers that be would never allow their own children to share in the cannon fodder status they assign to the "takers".
