Comments on: THE DRAFT http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/the_draft/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:26:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Anonymous http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/the_draft/#comment-8278 Anonymous Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=3941#comment-8278 The pro-draft movement is typically pushed by the Left so they would have something to protest. If a volunteer soldiers dies in the line of duty (like cops do every month) then there is nothing the Left can really moan about since the young soldier was died doing something he believed in. If it were a draftee who really wanted to be home playing video games while others guaranteed his security, then the Left would have a "cause" to get people all upset about, have card burning rallies and pretend its the late 60s again. The pro-draft movement is typically pushed by the Left so they would have something to protest.

If a volunteer soldiers dies in the line of duty (like cops do every month) then there is nothing the Left can really moan about since the young soldier was died doing something he believed in. If it were a draftee who really wanted to be home playing video games while others guaranteed his security, then the Left would have a "cause" to get people all upset about, have card burning rallies and pretend its the late 60s again.

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