On May 19, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> This leads us to a rather useless philosophical question. How should
> we approach the question of universal military service, and
> specifically resistance to it? Presumably we can all agree that it's
> preferable to the non-universal kind which is its most common
> alternative.
Now that I'm way past draft age, I see the virtue of a draft. We would not be in Iraq with a draft army. The imperialists realized that you need a professional army to be a proper imperialist power.
And in a non-imperial power, with a genuine self-defense force, universal service seems hard to argue with.
Doug