MikeK
Gold Member
The draft was not a bad idea. The problem is it was misused in the example of Vietnam. The reason why it was so easily misused is the American People at that time were still naive enough to believe their government would not commit the military to the kind of wholly unnecessary and wrongful debacle the Vietnam "containment" was.This is not the Vietnam era, that ended almost 40 years ago.
Why must so many try to turn the clock back 40+ years to try and make their point. This is no longer 1960-something.
Because if you do not learn from history you are doomed to repeat it.
The Draft was a bad idea then, it is a bad idea now.
But the draft was the primary motivation behind the Vietnam protest movement -- which is the reason why it was suspended. If it were not for the draft who knows how long Vietnam would have continued enriching the Military Industrial Complex.
If the draft were still active Bush could not have gotten approval to invade Iraq.
Conscription ensures that we have a People's army, not a mercenary army which is in service to the government.