Bill to reinstate draft

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Fri Jan 18 07:34:00 PST 2002


Chuck Grimes wrote:
> > But I wouldn't delude myself about who pays. The burden always falls
> > on the poor. And even under a universal system,

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



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