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To: Road Walker who wrote (218526)	2/10/2005 9:04:43 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573647

"Skin in the game; the draft." John, this question by Ted concerns me, like his question about "why protest?". In general, he strikes me as well read. And I always figured that period is pretty well documented. I'll ignore that he got the order wrong in the part about "the 1968 Chicago riots, the shootings of students or the lies by Johnson", but to not understand why the protests existed in the '60s... And all the ones that just don't seem to understand why the deficits are so important and stagflation is something to be feared. Not in the abstract or at some point in the future, but now. Are those pieces of recent history so obscure? I don't expect them to feel it in their gut, you have to live through that stuff to get that. But they don't even seem to have an intellectual appreciation for it... My oldest claims that he was taught in school that we were winning in Vietnam before we just gave up and left. I had a professor say the same thing, but he is from South Korea and they might teach it differently there. Now true, we weren't exactly losing in Vietnam, but wars aren't a binary condition. Winning is not the condition that exists when you aren't losing...

To: Road Walker who wrote (218526)	2/15/2005 7:35:23 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573647

How would you feel if you knew, with almost 100% certainty, that within 6-8 months of graduating from college (or high school if you didn't go to college) you would be in Iraq, dodging suicide bombers? 1 - I am against drafts. 2 - If there was a draft your chances of being drafted would be small. Even if we could and wanted to double our force in Iraq (which isn't likely) the percentage of the draft eligable population that would be needed would be very small. Even in Vietnam with up to 5 times as many people in country and an army that might have been twice as big we didn't draft most draft age men. Last time being drafted was almost certain was WWII. Tim