Democrats To Bring Back Military Draft?

[Lounge Daddy]

[url="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/rangel-to-reintroduce-military-draft-measure-2009-01-14.html"]According to The Hill:[/url]

[indent]Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) likely will introduce his controversial legislation to reinstate the draft again this year, but he will wait until after the economic stimulus package is passed.[/indent]

[CatherineM]

The draft certainly brought people from various social classes together. Might be good for the country, but I doubt it will ever pass.

[Lounge Daddy]

Bringing people together by force, with threat of law, isn't loving. It's not charitable--it's Statism. It's oppressive. These monsters presume that we are owned by the State, and that we exist at the pleasure of the State, and we live and die as the State sees fit.

[KnightofChrist]

To be honest I wouldn't at all be surprise if the DNC and Obama did the exact same things and even the things the RNC and Bush where accused of doing, only when they do it, it will be good.

Any Republican introducing such a thing would be labeled a warmonger.

[Tinkerlina]

[quote name='Lounge Daddy' post='1752772' date='Jan 16 2009, 02:16 AM'][url="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/rangel-to-reintroduce-military-draft-measure-2009-01-14.html"]According to The Hill:[/url]

[indent]Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) likely will introduce his controversial legislation to reinstate the draft again this year, but he will wait until after the economic stimulus package is passed.[/indent][/quote]

Idiot, he'd better not. -Katie

[sweens8403]

I think its interesting that a party claiming to be against war would seek to introduce a bill forcing people into military service.

[kenrockthefirst]

[quote name='Lounge Daddy' post='1752772' date='Jan 16 2009, 02:16 AM']url="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/rangel-to-reintroduce-military-draft-measure-2009-01-14.html"]According to The Hill:[/url]

[indent]Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) likely will introduce his controversial legislation to reinstate the draft again this year, but he will wait until after the economic stimulus package is passed.[/indent][/quote]
If I recall correctly, Senator Rangel attempted to or actually introduced a similar bill several years ago in response to what he viewed as a "back door draft," i.e. the issuance of Stop Loss orders to prevent currently serving military personnel from leaving the military if the terms of their enlistment expired while they were in Iraq or Afghanistan. I believe that his rationale then was to make military service - and, indeed, the involvement of society as a whole - more equitable in terms of the sacrifices involved for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There doesn't seem to be any compelling reason to re-introduce the bill now, apart from making the headlines.

[Nihil Obstat]

I thought liberals were all anti-war peaceniks.

[Lounge Daddy]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1752852' date='Jan 16 2009, 10:51 AM']I thought liberals were all anti-war peaceniks. [/quote]
Heh. And I thought the Progressives were great big fans of the freedom of individual choice.

[mcts]

[quote name='sweens8403' post='1752839' date='Jan 16 2009, 10:12 AM']I think its interesting that a party claiming to be against war would seek to introduce a bill forcing people into military service.[/quote]


my thoughts exactly.

[ilovechrist]

*clap* *clap* here we go, SOCIALISM, here we go! *clap* *clap*

[Brother Adam]

This is likely being introduced to still up the reaction it will cause than to actually pass.

[Malachi Crunch]

This is brought up every 5-8 years. There's nothing to it - won't get passed, or probably even introduced. The Iraq war is slowing down, and there's always the threat of low morale whenver draftees are brought in. It's not good business unless there'a a Hitler, Musolinni, Hirohito or Stalin in control, and serioulsy threatens the homeland. Plus, when the draft was in place, in took hundreds of planes and thousands of men to, for example, take a bridge. Technology has allowed for a single missle strike from hundreds of miles away to do what it used to take thousands to do. No real need for a huge military unles, like I said, homeland is in danger of being invaded and our military would have to shrink 50% from todays level to even seriously think about it.

[dauntingknight]

[quote name='sweens8403' post='1752839' date='Jan 16 2009, 09:12 AM']I think its interesting that a party claiming to be against war would seek to introduce a bill forcing people into military service.[/quote]
my thoughts exactly!



The only good thing about it is that it will help reinstate discipline in the US.

Edited January 16, 2009 by dauntingknight

[CatherineM]

I'm glad my two are draft ineligible. The oldest already served, and the younger is 4F (college baseball pitcher with blown out elbow). I remember how freaked out my mom got when 3 of my brothers were all in Vietnam at the same time. When my oldest was getting ready to deploy to the Middle East I really started to freak out. He was a Navy cook, so I figured he'd be fairly safe from going to Iraq, but he worked in a hospital, and they rotated people back and forth to the field hospitals. You live and die by daily email to know they are all right.