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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (163658)	6/5/2005 8:25:27 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) of 281500

There is an advantage to geode's call for draft that I suspect was his original point. If military adventures such as Iraq have to be staffed via draft, then the people are likely to be a lot less forgiving of them unless they are proven to be absolutely necessary. Chuck this along with "the best way to get rid of bad laws is to fully enforce them" or "there is no cure for high prices like high prices" and so on. As it stands, you don't even have to be a US citizen to be fighting in Iraq. Mexicans who fight there will be on the fast track to get their US citizenship. This is only one step away from importing mercenaries from around the world to do the dirty work for us. So on this point I am with geode; if people think it is important enough to go to war, then they should be willing to do it (i.e. draft). If they don't think it is worth the risk that their sons are called off to the die in far away lands, then they should oppose the war. Incidentally I am pretty sure it was this observation that led to the military change its tactics after Vietnam and remove the draft. They realized that no draft means less scrutiny of the military adventures.

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