Re: OT: sponge burning!

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 09:31:39PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:21:34PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:

I must admit the vast majority of my exposure to Canada is BC and
Alberta,
which I understand are a bit more progressive than most of Canada. I'm
actually a bit more conservative than my party, just in the US system,
only the Democratic Socialists have the balls to run on a platform of
eliminating the draft and introducing national healthcare.


eliminate_draft++

<god I'm an idiot for getting into this>

I'm a very wildly-liberal guy and I'm all in favor of the draft. Why?
couple of reasons. 1) it spreads the load throughout the population --
barring corruption, the Bush twins have just as much chance as any
body else of ending up in the military. 2) we end up with a true
citizen's army. This means we get better diversity in the military and
frankly, since most of the current US military comes from the largely
uneducated, desperate for a job crowd (no offense intended, but it is
reality -- look at recruiting numbers and lowering standards), getting
a broader cross-section is good. 3) we end up with a true citizen's
army which means more and more of the folks who end up in power have
more at stake in a war situation -- either they've been there and
understand or they know their kids might go.

Wouldn't this all be much more easily and quickly accomplished if we made
the children of politicians automatic first round draft picks regardless of
situation, or make the draft only apply to politician's children?



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