Michael Pollak:
> which of course our system never is. There's a reason it was called
> Selective service. We're too big a country; we never needed more than a
> fraction of the cohort available. And that was then. Nowadays with the
> new automation even the smaller European countries who really believed in
> universal service on principle are giving it up for a smaller, more
> professional force. So a draft would be even more selective.
First the draft; then the army; then the war; then the need for the draft.
-- Gordon