12-05-2016, 12:59 PM
(12-05-2016, 09:49 AM)Au165 Wrote: I agree with you if it is to defend the country, however in cases where we go to other countries that have not declared war on us this is where I have a problem. We should never even think to draft when we decide to play world police. We need to look at our current military staffing before we make the decision to be world police not after then decide to use a draft to make up the gap.
I would say that of the 4 times we have seen our government use conscription since 1789, I agree with 2 of them. The Civil War and WWII. I agree with your position, conscription for actual defense of our nation is a different thing than the conflicts we have been engaged in since WWII, which we got ourselves into by playing world police.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
