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In reply to the discussion: The draft, and foreign policy... how they are actually connected. [View all]trackfan
(3,650 posts)22. On a personal "micro" level I could never support a draft.
Hell, I won't even join a club, or go to a gym. However, I can see that with a draft you get the possibility - and when the going gets too stupid, the probability - of an actual mutiny; and such mutinies pretty much ended WWI and Vietnam, as well as giving the world that mixed blessing, the Soviet Union.
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The draft, and foreign policy... how they are actually connected. [View all]
nadinbrzezinski
Jan 2016
OP
"They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks"
stone space
Jan 2016
#3
So this is going to happen due to a passage in a book written by humans? (Graphic warning)
nadinbrzezinski
Jan 2016
#4
Stil flies over your heard (Again, graphic since our friend is hard headed)
nadinbrzezinski
Jan 2016
#6
I don't pray, either. I'm an atheist. But if you are going to do it, then do it right.
stone space
Jan 2016
#25
LMAO... if you knew how many times I got shot at... mind you that actually happens in the real world
nadinbrzezinski
Jan 2016
#26
If you support a draft, you support violence against innocient people. (nt)
stone space
Jan 2016
#33