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Old 07-05-2006, 09:34 AM   #21 (permalink)
Gatorade Frost
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I have a few scenarios that I'm curious as to what peopel think about whether they would be drafted/join depending on the case:

North Korea at tacks America. Not necessarily to invade, but they drop a nuclear bomb on San Francisco or LA to hurt the American infrastructure. If we responded by invading North Korea to overthrow the government in response to the attack, would you go? Same question but with Iran.

In that case, I would allow myself to be drafted. I wouldn't join I doubt since there's far better servicemen out there than I could ever be, but if I were called on I would go.

Iraq? If Congress instuted a draft today for more troops in Iraq, would you go?

Personally, no. I support the war, I think it's a means to an end and it could have some pretty great results in the Middle East, but ultimately I wouldn't fight that war. If I were drafted I'd probably head up to Canada for a little while.

Overall, I'm against a draft in the military sense. I feel that there should be a required duty to spend 2 years doing some kind of work for the government - Depending on education I guess depends on what you'd do - And you'd have the option of joining the military reserves for 2-4 years or working a civilian job for 2-4 years part time. I'm not 100% sure how that would work itself out, but general idea that I think there should be a required time of work done for the country, but not necessarily in a military fashion.

With the trying to make you think "Huh, what if it were my children instead of some one else's child out there?" That seems like a very poor way of going about things. Nobody in the military was forced into the military with a gun to their head, it was their choice, they joined, signed up knowing that they might end up going to war. It's not like people join the military just for kicks and not ever think that "Hey, I might end up going to war..." I can still support the decision to go to war, but I don't feel I need to be in the military to feel that way. To say that you do is absurd to me.
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