Draft

[theapportioner]

Do any of you guys support the concept of a military draft?

I do, on the following grounds:

1. A volunteer-only army is a form of institutionalized discrimination on the basis of income (in the United States). That's not to say that the benefits aren't helpful to those who need it - I'm sure they're worth it, if you stay alive and don't get maimed.

2. Having a draft would make the threshold for going to war considerably higher. No way we'd be involved in our current adventures in Iraq if we had one. The rich will always get out of it, but it's the middle class that's going to have to go, and many of them won't like it.

3. If we do have a draft (in which case, in our current political climate, the war would probably have be strongly justified), it's our fucking duty to serve.