By Monica Showalter
With military recruitment numbers down, it was probably only a matter of time before someone from the Washington swamp bruited the idea of restoring the military draft.
Joe Plenzler, whose biography here suggests he's more than a little familiar with the swamp, wrote an op-ed for Military.com, via Tom Knighton, calling for this:
Which, no matter how seemingly palatable the modified proposal, is still a restoration of the military draft and all its unpopular aspects, done to boost military recruitment numbers.
We have a history in this country of the military draft not working out as well as they thought it would work out -- in Vietnam, but also in the Civil War, both of which saw rebellion and riots as a result, but no matter.
Drafts the world over are sources of problems -- in Russia, we are hearing news of recruitment centers being burned down. We are also hearing of mass immigration, which we are seeing in Russia and Ukraine right now. That's also is why many of our ancestors came here to the states, including my own -- my Mennonite ancestors on the Swiss side were pacifists who had no intention of participating in war, while my Prussian ancestors really, really, really didn't want to serve in the inhuman conditions of Frederick the Great army and all its military exploits.
They lead to strange problems with age mis-matches, too, as we have seen in Singapore, where marriage rates are low because all men there are called to compulsory military service while women go to college, graduating two years earlier than men, which many in Singapore say contributes to fewer marriages and families forming. That may not affect us the same way here in the states, but the point here is that they are unpopular, Ron Paul has called them a type of slavery, and they are full of unintended consequences.
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With military recruitment numbers down, it was probably only a matter of time before someone from the Washington swamp bruited the idea of restoring the military draft.
Joe Plenzler, whose biography here suggests he's more than a little familiar with the swamp, wrote an op-ed for Military.com, via Tom Knighton, calling for this:
Which, no matter how seemingly palatable the modified proposal, is still a restoration of the military draft and all its unpopular aspects, done to boost military recruitment numbers.
We have a history in this country of the military draft not working out as well as they thought it would work out -- in Vietnam, but also in the Civil War, both of which saw rebellion and riots as a result, but no matter.
Drafts the world over are sources of problems -- in Russia, we are hearing news of recruitment centers being burned down. We are also hearing of mass immigration, which we are seeing in Russia and Ukraine right now. That's also is why many of our ancestors came here to the states, including my own -- my Mennonite ancestors on the Swiss side were pacifists who had no intention of participating in war, while my Prussian ancestors really, really, really didn't want to serve in the inhuman conditions of Frederick the Great army and all its military exploits.
They lead to strange problems with age mis-matches, too, as we have seen in Singapore, where marriage rates are low because all men there are called to compulsory military service while women go to college, graduating two years earlier than men, which many in Singapore say contributes to fewer marriages and families forming. That may not affect us the same way here in the states, but the point here is that they are unpopular, Ron Paul has called them a type of slavery, and they are full of unintended consequences.
The swamp sends up a weather balloon about bringing back the military draft
With military recruitment numbers down, it was probably only a matter of time before someone from the Washington swamp bruited the idea of restoring the military draft. Joe Plenzler, whose biography here suggests he's more than a lit...
