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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (95005)11/10/2008 2:30:52 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (2) of 541471
 
>>If the government is REQUIRING the service, then the comparison with the Armed Forces is to the draft. Do you support drafting citizens into the military? If not, then community service should also not be required. If one is drafted into service, whether one is serving the country or the government is irrelevant. It's the government, on behalf of the country, that issues the draft notice.<<

Karen -

I'm not so sure that's true. Drafting people into the military puts them in the position of having to kill and/or die for their country. It pulls them out of their homes and forces them to spend years doing something they haven't chosen to do.

Drafting them into community service for a strictly limited amount is not the same thing.

I also think we might want to look at what Obama is actually proposing before deciding it's a bad idea.

- Allen
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