....as evidently Congressman Charlie Rangel has introduced a national service act that would require young people to serve the government for a period of two years.
If you want to know why this is a bad idea--beyond the reality of the 13th Amendment being egregiously violated of course--just ask any soldier who served in Vietnam and continued through the Reagan years about the ability and motivation of drafted soldiers vs. volunteers. There was a reason that the Persians had their best troops driving their second best troops into the all-volunteer killing machine of the Spartans at Thermopylae, to put it mildly, which is the same reason the Soviets needed to put their best machine guns BEHIND the first wave of infantry during World War Two.
One would figure that Mr. Rangel would have some historical memories that would make him abhor this idea, but apparently not.
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if we didnt have the draft, we would never had engaged in other follies as well: the civil war, ww1, ww2.
more american blood has been shed where it should not have all because of the draft.
also, the govt cant get away with paying soldiers so little anymore, since they need to compete with the real world wages and living standards.
to add:
since soldiesr cant be had on the cheap anymore, battle tactices and technology have had to evolve in order to limit casualties.
the number of our dead in the recent 20yrs is astonishingly low when compared to any other conflict in the history of the world.
Rangel was a Korean War draftee, if I'm not mistaken.
He must have forgotten how badly the draft tends to work out when compared to an all-volunteer force.
Doug, well said. Also, despite being a black man, Rangel has also apparently forgotten some events that started at Jamestown and ended at Appamattox Courthouse, and why the 13th Amendment was a good idea.
Perhaps Rangel would like us to fail again in our military adventures.
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