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To: goldworldnet who wrote (276477)	10/24/2008 3:03:18 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 793801

I don't think countries with a draft are generally more patriotic than those without. Of course a lot of countries with a draft only draft a very small number of people. Which makes sense when you have a modern military. Its expensive to train people, its also expensive to equip them, and to pull them out of the civilian economy. Of course you could just give cheap rifles and minimal training to 20 million Americans, but I'd rather have a smaller, higher skilled, better equipped force. And even if your going that cheap (per person) route, you have to consider the economic hit from losing so many people from the civilian economy. You could just draft a relatively small number (say .5 to 2X the size of our current force), and equip and train them well, but then your imposing the cost involuntarily on a few, and probably doing more to make people think they are being treated unfairly than you are doing to promote patriotism. Certainly a draft (whether or not I am drafted, and at my age I probably wouldn't be) wouldn't serve to make me more patriotic.

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