I was just reading another article about another conservative politician toting along the same old worn out rhetoric about women serving in combat situations (which is to say they shouldn't because of cliches X, Y, and Z).
Then follows the inevitable argument that if women want all the same military rights and priviledges that men have, then women should also have to register for the draft. Fair, unfair, to draft or not to draft, to send into combat or keep her in the kitchen, yadda yadda yadda... really, the arguments are ultimately all moot *if* one thinks about it this way:
If we can't manage to draft enough people into the military to win a war--if the public doesn't support a war enough to organically generate an all-volunteer military to fight for a particular cause--and if we truly live in a democracy where the law of the land is determined by the will of the people--then maybe we shouldn't be fighting said war in the first place.
I say it isn't an argument of whether or not women should be included in the draft. I say the only just option is to end the draft altogether.
Besides, we don't need bodies anymore. We have secret buttons and "smart bombs" to do the work...kind of like replacing factory workers with machines, only with more pizzaz.
Go ahead. Tell me all the reasons why I am woefully mistaken. John was always my favorite Beatle because he was a dreamer.
