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

[zeemike]

86. Well that was the war of my youth.

Saw it from the beginning to the end.
And at first things were diferent...all people were drafted rich and poor alike...in fact I served with the grandson of one of the richest man in the US.
Then as the war escalated the deferments came in and that changed everything because those with money got em and those who were poor went into the meat grinder.

But we have been at war in Afghanistan how long now?..14 years?
And we are still in Iraq and expanded it even further, but no problem because we don't have "boots on the ground"...except for the ones that we do have on the ground and the paid private army, and private contractors doing military work, and private drone squads that kill at long range for private profit.

Sorry I think it is bullshit and I want to go back...back where all draft aged kids stood a chance to serve and every family rich or poor had skin in the game...and back to a military that was self sufficient that did not rely on private contractors to do most everything at a very high cost.

But it is not my future it is the young that will have to suffer the big mistakes...and we made some big ones in terms of wars and our military. And somehow they sold it to many of us