Col. Wilkerson: If Americans Want Ground Forces To Fight ISIS, Let's Have A Draft

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98. These aren't deferments. These people serve in the military, just half a world away from combat.

In some cases, you'll need people fit enough to perform non-combat duties, so someone is going to end up with those jobs.

In either case, instituting a draft to make sure the wealthy feel the pain of war, or even taxing everyone at 100% won't be effective. If the government takes gobs of money to spend on the military, why wouldn't the wealthy just dump their money in defense stocks? Their "profits" wouldn't show as any source of income until they sell, and why would they sell when the government is ensuring those companies get lots of business. And as this would only be American policy, this would really only prevent US military involvement even if it did work, so world peace would still be a world away.

IMHO, The best way to prevent most wars would be to not elect politicians that vote for unnecessary ones.