springer made an excellent point today

[still_one]

He mentioned that he speaks before groups who are for the Iraq war, but when he asks them how many would support a draft no one raises their hand

His question is how can one morally support a war, and not support a draft?

[Jackpine Radical]

1. That's easy. We just hire a mercenary military

to do our killing for us. Worked for the Romans, ya know.

[brainshrub]

2. Easy, they are called Chickenhawks.

In an earlier age, these kind of people would have been disowned by their families in disgrace.

[Dhalgren]

3. He (and you) is absolutely right.

If you support this "Unending War on Terror or Whatever the Naked Nazi Defines as the War on Terror", then you must support a military draft. The very fact that there is no draft points to the "War" being a lie. The tax cuts were another indicator, the Dubai port deal is another. It just goes on and on... Why all of these people are in support of an ongoing, ill-defined, global "war" on "whoever" is just a complete puzzle. It makes no sense at all. These people cannot all be profiting from the carnage; they cannot all be gibbering idiots. But if we really are in a "70-year" war (as Gingrich says), then why not the draft?

[quiet.american]

4. That is a great way of making the point. n/t