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In reply to the discussion: WILL there be a military draft? [View all]Javaman
(63,118 posts)those days are behind us.
we now live in a post draft society where people join up, become soldiers and get killed and, sadly, no one gives a rats ass. we are involved in 170 nations around the world, doing god knows what to god knows who for god knows what reason, yet, we prattle on, motor on and plain ignore everything. This is all done so there never is another national conversation about a draft, because the political establishment have realized, if there ever was a draft it would be certain political death. it's better to kill from above and from afar then up close and personal. we live in the network tv media propaganda box 24/7 information spew era. The one thing that would jolt the American public from their dream like delusion of America being "#1" is the daily totals of draft aged kids getting fed to the meat grinder for something they never gave a shit about in the first place. the days of real support for the sensational jingoistic US of A has gone the way of the body bags coming home from Viet Nam. Can't have that shit on tv. (we know this because george w. moron* did everything he* could to prevent the coffins being seen coming home from Iraq - hell the moron* didn't even go to one funeral. that would mean he had to acknowledge that people were actually dying because of him*. and those poor fuckers weren't even drafted).
junior won't be going unwillingly anytime soon.