A Comment About

A Modest Proposal — For the Draft

April 18, 2008 - 12:00 am - by Jules Crittenden
RJA
2008-04-18 14:04:29

This is a model–albeit a somewhat more rigorous model–of a national service plan that has been around 50 years or so. perhaps longer.

That said, it would be interesting to restart a draft–my suspicion is that many of today’s young people will not act like their hippy parents acted. What if they gave a draft and everybody came.

The operating assumption is that the war would end with the draft–talk about reliving history.