From what I've read there is not enough support of it. I hear the majority of Republicans are dead set against it. It would be a process most politicians could not tolerate. It's the sort of issue that puts them in a bad spot and forces them to make a hard decision that will lose them a certain percentage of voters.
Some of the issues:
1. New rules and our understanding of how people avoided the draft in the past will make it far more difficult for the off spring of the rich and privileged to get out of serving their country. Our president and vice president may have found their ways to avoid service but there will be no more of that. This will also come into play with wealthy supporters of these politicians who will be looking to get their children off the hook...it'll be hard in this climate to call in favors. Can you imagine the way support would vanish for a politician who found a way to keep his child from fighting but felt the need to send yours...
2. The active media in the information age. Think how easy and fast you can put together a list of politicians and wealthy folks and how many of their children are serving in the military (right now in our House and Senate only one politician has a child that is serving in this war)...will they all try and say they have sickly kids unfit to serve? Doubt it...this is not a popular topic and the media, were there to be a draft, would track these items...and with the internet info spreads too fast to control it. Won't it look odd if the entire "upper crust" of this country has given none of their children to military service? In the 60's and 70's it may have been possible to stay under the radar and hide and manipulate this stuff...now it won't be so easy...
3. A draft forces all American families to sacrifice in a time of war...they all must give their children to the cause...we must face this when they try to bring back the draft and facing such a severe decision will force more people consider the value of a war. In the case of something like Iraq, and those who decided to take us there, this could suck all support right out of such an effort. It's easy to send someone elses child to fight a war...far different to see your own sent.
Right now for these reasons I support a draft. If we need to fight a war so badly to protect our country and our way of life then all should be forced to sacrifice. If support for the war still exists when you ask people to do that then I guess you could call it a just war. I'm tired of all the armchair generals in this country...all led of course by the ultimate armchair general in the oval office who found his way to avoid ever having to face enemy fire.
If this is all worth it let's start the draft tommorrow...we have a war on terror to fight worldwide...it's a big war...we need all the able young bodies we can find to fight it.
Of course today I heard some Republicans say there is no war in Iraq...we already won the war in Iraq. It was all over when Bush said so from that aircraft carrier.
Expect to hear this for the next 5 months. The Bush strategy going forward is to tell us again and again that we already won the war...guess they figure like everything else if they say it enough people will believe it.
So, if the Republicans are saying there is "no war...we already won it" then why would we need a draft. Oh yeah, the "War On Terror"...well see that's just like our "War On Drugs"...it's not the kind of war where you draft people...it's more of a well...I'll let Bushco tell you what it is I guess...
