Topic: Politics
| Subject | IS REINSTATING THE DRAFT THE DEMOCRATS' ANSWER? |
| DateCreated | 11/20/2006 8:56:00 PM |
| PostedDate | 11/20/2006 8:50:00 PM |
| Body | New York Rep. Charles Rangel has offered up a plan to deal with depleted military troop levels, and racial/class inequities in recruiting. His plan is to reinstate the draft. If I didn't think Washington had lost all touch with the people before that proposal, I'm certain of it now! I really have to wonder about Rep. Rangel's state of mind because his plan is as insane as its reasoning! 1. A draft would increase troop levels. However, going from a professional (volunteer) military to a conscript (draftee) force automatically lessens it's effectiveness due to troop moral. There's a big difference between a person who signs up for service, and one who is forced into it! If I'm dodging bullets in a war that I don't support --and I volunteered-- then I really have no one to blame but myself for being there. I might not like it, but volunteering means that I would have signed up to go wherever the government chose to send me. But, if I'm FORCED to dodge bullets in a conflict that I don't support, I think my anger would be focused on my own government. The government that FORCED me into harm's way! 2. Rep. Rangel says that a draft would make politicians think twice before going to war because their own children would be at risk of going into combat. He also says that a draft would rectify race/class inequities in recruitng. The rich kids would go to war along with the poor kids. Uh, Mr. Rangel, don't try to sell me horse shit and tell me it doesn't stink! Because you want the Congress to be more thoughtful about war, and to make the wealthy share in the risk of war, you want to expose all of our children to death in Iraq or some other future war. There was a draft during The Vietnam War, but politicians and the wealthy still weren't sending their kids. Wasn't George Bush's avoidance of service in Vietnam a Democratic Party talking point during the 2004 election with John Kerry??? Also, a huge problem with the draft to begin with was its disproportionate targeting of people of color, and poor Whites. The Draft sends masses of poor people to wars they have no stake in, and Rangel knows that! If reinstating the Draft is the best solution the Democrats can come up with to the mess in Iraq, then they don't deserve to be in power either! Hell, get rid of all the Democratic and Republican politicians! I'll be damned if I let someone send my child to a military meat grinder that has nothing to do with defending this country! If you really want to see war Mr. Rangel, come into the hood trying to take my child off to war! Anyway, I have the perfect solution: Bring all of the brave women and men in Iraq home, and send all the damned politicians! Draft the President and Congress --and corporate CEO's who engage in war profiteering-- to fight their own damned wars! |
Posted by Steven Whitehurst
at 8:50 PM CST
Updated: Wednesday, 25 February 2015 3:54 PM CST
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