Back to a Military Draft?

Rangel claims that a draft is necessary to "social justice" as this theoretical draft would balance the playing field he claims is currently biased against minorities and the economically under-fortunate.

The "privileged" do not serve in a draft system, except perhaps as officers. Those with money can almost always buy out of the "dismal" chores of life.

Read "My American Journey" by Colin Powell. A volunteer military is a superior military, and for the less-privileged, the military is the best means to socio-economic improvement next to college. My own service helped boost me out of a lower-income white strata, and is paying for college which takes me up another notch. The military is not something to be avoided, and as a life-or-death entity, the wrong place to play social engineering games.

Of course, thoughtless liberals like Rangel and Kerry see the military as some sort of indentured servitude. The military is an honorable profession, on the contrary, even when it is put to dishonorable uses by politicians.

Now, drafting politicians to serve is an idea to embrace!