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I have very mixed feelings about the draft. On one hand, I agree with the sentiment that its wrong to force someone to serve and potentially die for a cause they don't believe in. On the other I can see how it might be considered a duty for all citizens to serve its country in a time of need. Of course, I think the latter is limited to times of our country being invaded or in times of eminent security threats.
A deeper and more pertinent issue for me is whether or not voluntary service is racist or classist. A great number of military personal are their because they need the college money or because its the best paying job they can get. This makes it so that its the poor and minority classes are the ones that bare the brunt of American militarism. You can look at the numbers and see this is clearly the case. Its not fair, but it would seem that the only solution would be compulsory service, but this doesn't take care of the problem of involuntary service. What do you folks think of compulsory service?
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"The courts that first rode the warhorse of virtual representation into battle on the res judicata front invested their steed with near-magical properties." ~27 F.3d 751
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