I’m scared as all hell at the draft being reinstated, no way am I going off anytime soon to fight. But I absolutely see the points made below, think about it.
Without a draft, there’s really no antiwar movement, we’re willing to pay people to die for us. It doesn’t reflect very well on the character of our society. Charlie Moskos, professor of military sociology at Northwestern University
It shouldn’t be just the poor and the working poor who find their way into harm’s way. If the kids and grandkids of the president and the Cabinet and the Pentagon were vulnerable to going to Iraq, we never would have gone—no question in my mind. The closer this thing comes home to Americans, the quicker we’ll be out of Iraq. Rep. Charlie Rangel, D, NY