Bush War Adviser Supports Considering a Military Draft

[rmacomic]

Dude
You haven't the first clue. To be willing to serve when called is one thing, but that is not what you said. If you think that you're going to back track now good luck. I have always respected your opinion because it was well researched, but you have obviously never had any life experience with the military, if you had you would never wish the draft on anyone.
And your idea for a mandatory service smacks of communism. Way to show your true colors, Comrade.

[Kirobaito]

Originally Posted by rmacomic

Dude
You haven't the first clue. To be willing to serve when called is one thing, but that is not what you said. If you think that you're going to back track now good luck. I have always respected your opinion because it was well researched, but you have obviously never had any life experience with the military, if you had you would never wish the draft on anyone.
And your idea for a mandatory service smacks of communism. Way to show your true colors, Comrade.

That's funny, because I was thinking it sounded much more fascist. I think definitions strictly speaking, it is more fascist, because communism in its strictest and most theoretical sense has no national unity that compulsory military service would involve.

[rmacomic]

Originally Posted by Kirobaito

That's funny, because I was thinking it sounded much more fascist. I think definitions strictly speaking, it is more fascist, because communism in its strictest and most theoretical sense has no national unity that compulsory military service would involve.

Semantics

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by rmacomic

Dude
You haven't the first clue. To be willing to serve when called is one thing, but that is not what you said. If you think that you're going to back track now good luck. I have always respected your opinion because it was well researched, but you have obviously never had any life experience with the military, if you had you would never wish the draft on anyone.
And your idea for a mandatory service smacks of communism. Way to show your true colors, Comrade.

Guess then that there will continue to be less and less of our well-heeled class in this country who will never have that experience either.

And fyi, I'm not trying to backtrack a bit. I was trying to elaborate on reasons why I felt military service a good thing for citizens to do in general and being willing to do in particular. As some posters have shown, I don't think they'd be signing up anytime soon.

Having a country where only ~90% servce in the military imo is not a positive long-term trend. You would call a draft communism, railing against it smacks of elitism to me.

Military service is good enough for those guys but not for me, is that how it goes?