War, Draft Dogers, And Us.

Last week I was talking with a friend about the two wars we're in and the dangers of terrorism in general. This morning I was reading in the N.Y.Times an article about the National Guard and how it is unable to plan and train for national and local emergencies because it is forced to plan and train for combat. That caused me to think back to the last time there was a draft in this country. No, I'm not talking about a cool breeze. When young men, and women, are called up for duty through a system known as the draft. It was Viet Nam. Young folks may not even know we were at war in that country, or where it is, but back then everybody knew. There's nothing popular about the draft, especially with young people trying to plan their futures. There was even a group called draft dodgers who did almost anything they could to keep from going to war including burning their draft cards and going to Canada. Thank goodness for Canada. All you had to do was get out of bed one morning, have breakfast and drive to Canada. I had already served, so it didn't affect to me. My point is that the reason Pres. Bush was able to start and fight two wars without the whole country on his neck about it, was because there was no draft. Volunteers only, and special, paid "employees", who were and are mercenaries and the National Guard. We need the government to reinstate the draft before we can go to war in the future. No more mercenaries no more using the National Guard except as a last resort. The problem with that idea is that we'd never be able to go to war again. Ever. So what's wrong with that, you may ask? Well, what do you do with all those Generals we have sitting around and how about all those would be Generals? What're they gonna do?