Posted on 01/06/2020 12:11:36 PM PST by rintintin
To his eternal credit, Richard Nixon helped end America's draft. Congress responded to his President's Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force by discontinuing the draft in 1973.
The United States has set an example that we should encourage other countries to copy.
The commission's report noted that the draft:
"has been a costly, inequitable, and divisive procedure for recruiting men for the armed forces. It has imposed heavy burdens on a small minority of young men while easing slightly the tax burden on the rest of us.
"It has introduced needless uncertainty into the lives of all our young men. It has burdened draft boards with painful decisions about who shall be compelled to serve and who shall be deferred.
"It has weakened the political fabric of our society and impaired the delicate web of shared values that alone enables a free society to exist."
(Excerpt) Read more at gazettetimes.com ...
This author is a raging moron.
Compulsory service would do wonders for this country.
Yeah, plus the Left has learned that you really can’t get a good antiwar movement going without a draft.
Were you involved in the draft?
Not talking about just registering with SS, but the draft?
Those same cowards are the first to demand that women be drafted - ahead of them, of course.
“Compulsory service would do wonders for this country.”
I’ve always been a believer it would strengthen not just the country but our people. Service made me a better and stronger person.
But, we won’t have another draft. Our existing armed forces are the best trained in the world.
The military doesn't need one. The people serving in the military (including myself) don't want one. I don't want to train malcontents who don't want to be there. I certainly don't want to serve next to them, putting my life in their hands.
I find nothing in this posted excerpt to support that assessment.
Indeed, it was the unfair application of the Draft - not the Draft, itself - that was unfair.
Regards,
Ping!
Lookee here at today’s lunacy
Yep. It would do the country wonders, but babysitting isnt the job of the military. Now if we could make all public education military school...
The Left would love to have a draft. They see the military is the biggest social program there is.
I don’t agree with the premise. A little more uncertainty in the lives of our youth isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
And boo-hoo that draft boards had to make ‘hard decisions.’ That’s life, snowflake.
The author seems to want to equate military service with slavery/involuntary servitude, regardless of the Supreme Court’s 1918 decision to the contrary.
So now, instead of military service being spread more or less evenly across all walks of life, it is more or less constrained, I suspect, to the lower portion of the middle class among those who have fewer other options - excepting those patriotic young men and women whose highest calling is to serve and protect the Constitution.
I just love it when people let their literary skills overpower their analytical ones.
I’m afraid that compulsory service would just bog down our military with millions of petulant, perpetual adolescents who are beyond training or salvage. They’d burn up all of their time filling out discharge paperwork.
“Were you involved in the draft?”
Draft was ended by the time I registered. I can’t say I’m sorry I wasn’t drafted and sent to Vietnam. I supported the Vietnam War at the time, but in retrospect - the idea that LBJ should have compelled young men to go there, under penalty of prison, strikes me now as utterly bizarre.
Happened two weeks before my 18th birthday what a relief, ended up joining the Marine Corps so a moot point. Kids live in France, they had to go one day for service which they were basically asked to join and then let go at noon.
Everyone should do two years of some type of service does not have to be military but some service to their country after high school or university.
“The author seems to want to equate military service with slavery/involuntary servitude, regardless of the Supreme Court’s 1918 decision to the contrary.”
The Supreme Court may have upheld DEMOCRAT Woodrow Wilson’s draft, but whatever those lawyers-with-robes wrote, the draft is BY DEFINITION involuntary service. You have no choice in the matter - unless you want to go to prison. Absence of choice is a synonym for involuntary.
Compulsory service might have made men out of all the pajama boys out there.
The modern draft is a DEMOCRAT institution - Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Truman, and LBJ. An extension of DEMOCRAT mentality that big government should control your life and in a sense you are the government’s property.
BULLSH!T! Look up MacNamara's Morons. I had two in my boot camp contingent, that I had to hand deliver to MCRD San Diego. Both were illiterate. They were congenial enough, most functional morons are, but they could not have found the San Diego flight at Lax on a $5 bet. Neither lasted the Induction Week.
Since the Corps had stopped accepting draftees by 1970, since they were sending home more, after a week or two, than they wanted to tolerate, it wasn't so much an issue as in the Army.
Democrats don't want to enlist, since they would rather infringe on other's Liberty than learn how it feels in the military. It's no Great Loss, and Leftist Children don't need to swear to an oath they reject.
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