[lbo-talk] A Message to America's Students from Ralph Nader

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Apr 11 09:10:38 PDT 2004


Yoshie Furuhashi quoted Ralph Nader:


>Today enlistments in the Reserves and National Guard are declining.
>The Pentagon is quietly recruiting new members to fill local draft
>boards, as the machinery for drafting a new generation of young
>Americans is being quietly put into place.

There are serious morale and retention problems now with a professional army. After Vietnam, the ruling class realized that fighting imperial wars with conscripts was a route to disaster. The present war's political support isn't very deep. Why ever would they take the suicidal route of bringing back the draft under those circs?

Doug



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