McChrystal: Time To Bring Back The Draft

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4. We wouldn't have had a single war since Vietnam if there'd been a lottery draft. Furthermore,...

we wouldn't have had even the Vietnam war if the children of the wealthy weren't able to skip out on it using College Deferments.

And what's worse is, those same chickenhawks who spent Vietnam hiding under their beds in a dorm are now throwing the country into war after war as a way of compensating for their feelings if inadequacy over that.

The fact is that, if you're a plutocrat, there is absolutely no downside anymore for pushing the country into war. You make millions from your stocks in defense contracts, you secure sources of cheap energy, you have U.S. troops killing and dying overseas in defense of corporate interests, and there is no chance that YOUR kids will ever have to fight in those wars. Just a few patriots, and a bunch of poor people who had to pay their way through college by joining the reserves. As long as your kids are safe in Harvard Business school, being groomed to carry on the family's plutocratic legacy, it's all a plus.

I support two things:

1. A lottery draft. NO COLLEGE DEFERMENTS.

2. A law that says that any war or police action that either lasts longer than six months or requires more than 10 000 troops automatically triggers call up of some draftee numbers.

If we had a system like that, odds are a couple of Mitt's sons would have had to put on khaki as far back as 2004.