Mike, re: "A call for a draft will create Vietnam style resistance. If there was no draft then, that war may still be going on today given our propensity for "as long as it takes comments" i am now hearing about iraq."
Yes, we might have remained in Vietnam longer if it hadn't been for the resistance of people who felt they, or their loved ones, might be called up and killed in that war. And yes, if we had a draft for average citizens to get called up to fight the "war" in Iraq, the American public, and therefor the American Congress, would undoubtedly refuse to continue the war there. What does this tell us?
It tells us that most people are a lot more willing to send other people to die for a questionable cause and an uncertain result than they are to go and die themselves.
I'm personally of the opinion that we shouldn't send other people to kill and die unless the cause and the probability of success are so compelling that we are willing to go and die ourselves. But the young Clintons, and Bushes, and Roves, and Cheneys, and Kerrys, and Liebermans and all those other children of the powerful are......sitting this one out too.
In the meantime we keep hearing about how noble all those men and women are who are getting their asses shot off in Iraq for the cause of "freedom." The BS never seems to end. Ed |
