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dissident on February 10, 2008 - 8:59pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

If the USA wants to Invade Venezuela then it must institute the draft. This is a non-starter.

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rlaws on February 10, 2008 - 9:26pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

As the American economy collapses, more disenfranchised uneducated southerners will hand their lives over to the American military machine anyway.

With a draft, presumably young people of all social standings would be eligible for warfare, increasing the anti-war pressure from their concerned parents.

National service in America would have resulted in fewer wars.

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memmel on February 11, 2008 - 9:47am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

And of course our old standby immediate citizenship if you join the army.

I happen to agree national service esp if it had a large humanitarian component would have been a good thing in the US. Even if it became a pork barrel I'd have rather seen us building bridges and roads than selling arms.

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