On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 09:31:39PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:21:34PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > I must admit the vast majority of my exposure to Canada is BC and Alberta, > > which I understand are a bit more progressive than most of Canada. I'm > > actually a bit more conservative than my party, just in the US system, only > > the Democratic Socialists have the balls to run on a platform of > > eliminating the draft and introducing national healthcare. > > > > eliminate_draft++
<god I'm an idiot for getting into this> I'm a very wildly-liberal guy and I'm all in favor of the draft. Why? couple of reasons. 1) it spreads the load throughout the population -- barring corruption, the Bush twins have just as much chance as any body else of ending up in the military. 2) we end up with a true citizen's army. This means we get better diversity in the military and frankly, since most of the current US military comes from the largely uneducated, desperate for a job crowd (no offense intended, but it is reality -- look at recruiting numbers and lowering standards), getting a broader cross-section is good. 3) we end up with a true citizen's army which means more and more of the folks who end up in power have more at stake in a war situation -- either they've been there and understand or they know their kids might go. I'm a pacifist and the best thing I can think of to promote peace is to make war hurt *everybody* and not just a certain slice of the population. Notice how few of the folks in the current war-hungy US administration actually have any military experience (drinking beer while hanging out in the guard stateside doesn't count). </god I'm an idot for getting into this> A
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