IP: Calls for a new draft begin...

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33724-2001Nov3.html

President Bush has said that the new war against terrorism will be "a 
different kind of conflict." He's more right than he knows. Not only are we 
facing a uniquely shadowy enemy, one committed to inflicting mass civilian 
casualties on U.S. soil, but for the first time in our history we're 
entering a war of significant size and probable duration without drafting 
young men to fight the threat.

This will have to change.America needs a draft. But because this is a new 
kind of war, we need a new kind of draft: One that would focus less on 
preparing men for conventional combat -- which hasn't been very extensive 
in this war so far -- than on training young men and even young women for 
the arguably more daunting task of guarding against and responding to 
terrorism at home

<snip>


For archives see:
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/