What you are about toread may seem rather strange or absurd to you, but I offer this not as humor or pure satire I offer this as a real and viable solution to this war and any other military action that america may ever find itself embroiled with in nthe future so before you reject the idea off handedly, please take a day or two to actually injest it mentally and I believe it will make total sense and please leave me feedback positive or otherwise.
Over the recent holiday I hoped to take a mental break from all things political but given the fact that my family and friends know I am strongly opinionated I was given no reprieve. Now bear in mind my family is not narrowly defined politically as we were all raised to gather information and form our own opinions and I tend to be friends with similar people. So while we may not agree, in fact we often clash, our opinions are well thought out and are defended, for the most part, quite intelligently.
My younger brother raised the question of the draft. Being a fairly staunch Democrat, his concern is that the republicans will dump the '08 election into the dems laps, leaving Iraq as their problem and many believe that a draft may be inevitable. This would then make the dems look like bigger hawks than bush because the draft itself is such a firebrand issue.
My solution is similar but different. First off F the draft but yet embrace it. Here's the plan in its entirety. EVERYONE ages 15-60 is responsible for 6 yrs mandatory military service. Yes both male and female sick, lame, retarded, rich, poor, married, parents, single parents, doesn't matter; no deferrals, no national guarding it. No nothing. 6yrs active, not at home, you're abroad, your ass is in danger service.
How do we solve the current problm? Easy. EVERYONE in this country between the ages of 40 and 45 yrs. old, pack your bags you're going to basic training and then you're going to Iraq! Hey we're the ones who brought bush back for round 2 so let's support it. After them, the 55-60 yr olds, that ought to change the gray panthers minds about whether this war is a good idea or not and a lot of congress members and senator might rethink things if they were suddenly being shipped out. And then, before we start taking the real youngsters let's ship the 26-35 yr olds. These are the really agressive corporate want to climb the ladder types who love to wave the flag and cheer on the deaths of the slightly younger, typically much more economicly disadvantaged soldiers who are currently fighting a war they were far too cowardly to volunteer for.
How this helps? Think about it. How willing would you be to support a war you had to fight whether you wanted to or not? I believe most military conflict would be avoided because everyone would either know the horrors of combat first hand or would be facing it if it were to happen.
