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Politics : Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator from New York? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (1036)	8/15/1999 12:50:00 PM
From: chalu2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3389

The essential problem with a draft is fairness. How many 18 year olds do we have in this country? I'm counting men and women, and my guess is we have about 4 million. So, over two years, to be entirely fair, we would have to induct 8 million men and women into the armed forces. We won't do that--so who gets out of serving?

To: jlallen who wrote (1036)	8/15/1999 2:27:00 PM
From: chalu2	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3389

On further thinking, I believe we should only support draft legislation which requires that the sons and daughters and grandsons and granddaughters of all members of Congress (and of the President) be inducted and serve in regular military Units (not the National Guard), if of age and physically able. Then we will have our assurance that a draft will be fair, necessary and uncontroversial. Whatever we think of the Kings and warriors of olden days, when they rode into battle with their troops and stood an equal chance of being wounded or killed, no one could question the fairness of the leader's decisions or the process which led them into battle. We can't send a modern-day President onto the battlefield, but why allow his children or grandchildren to weasel out?