I'm Sorry... If We Are To Go Down This Syrian/ISIS Road To War... Reinstitute The Draft

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24. What do you think that would do, really?

People would probably still have a chance to enlist, rather than be drafted. Not all skin that's in the game is skin that's at the same risks.

Back during Vietnam we called it volunteering to avoid the draft, which mostly meant avoiding combat arms in the Army, and their having complete freedom to do with us what they wanted. I had a low enough number in the lottery to make the jump. I took their tests and I volunteered for four years rather than be drafted for 2 years, in the deal I got into a branch of military intelligence repairing teletype that were used as computer terminals, I spent over a year going to one school and then another.

When I finally earned my VSR and VCR I did it mostly inside a supermarket sized air-conditioned concrete box. The barracks I lived in was a smaller, air-conditioned concrete box. Pretty safe from bullets, ever meal cooked in a kitchen and eaten at a table, every beverage drunk out of a glass.

You know George W also volunteered...for the Texas Air National guard. It was a unit that was a safe-haven for rich kids.

Who with a low draft number, connections, or native intelligence wouldn't look for jobs in the Coast Guard, Air Force or Navy? Who wouldn't look for a military job that didn't mean being spam in a can?

Even with a draft you end up with a lot more poor & minority kids doing the dangerous stuff and more of the rich and better educated suburban kids doing safer stuff. Skin in the game means little, because the game is still a game that a smart person or a person with connections can game.