I'm pretty sure this is just a way to bolster the military by avoiding the D-word. Did you notice the part at the end about women now being eligible for compulsory military service?
It doesn't say draft but anyone with more than three viable braincells kinda picked that one up. Per the women eligibility thing... well, we wanted to vote, drive and work just like the men it makes perfect sense that we'd be given the right to die next to em in war.
I expect the Republicans will shoot this down in an instant. It's just pretty fucked up that someone would even bother introducing something like this.
He's been doing this for years, claims a volunteer military gets a disproportionate number of minority's because they have fewer opportunities available to them, and thinks we'd be less likely to goto war or psuedowar if rich mens sons and daughters lives were on the line.
Considering he's currently up on criminal ethics charges its a bit hypocritical of him to raise this again, but as I said he's been raising this each session of the House for close to a decade now.
Not just the republicans, the democrats too. Even the military doesn't really want a draft, even with all the trouble they have recruiting.
Of course, there is the flip side in that Obama really likes the German National Service plan, which sounds a lot like this really. I think its pretty much a nonstarter really though.
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Considering he's currently up on criminal ethics charges its a bit hypocritical of him to raise this again, but as I said he's been raising this each session of the House for close to a decade now.
Not just the republicans, the democrats too. Even the military doesn't really want a draft, even with all the trouble they have recruiting.
Of course, there is the flip side in that Obama really likes the German National Service plan, which sounds a lot like this really. I think its pretty much a nonstarter really though.
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