Why can't all these politicians who are so quick to talk about the scarifice of ordinary men and women, send their own (politicians')children to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan? Do you think it is fair that only a few children of politicians fight in wars while a large majority of citizens are told to send their children or only child off to war?
2006-07-09 15:18:43 · 14 answers · asked by lisa 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
The United States has an ALL VOLUNTEER military. Would it be right to force people to enlist because their parents are civil servants? Should the children of a small town sheriff or mailman have to join the military if this line of logic is followed?
NO.
2006-07-09 15:22:19 · answer #1 · answered by Mike R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, a great percentage of children that join in the armed forces come from low-income families. Joining the armed forces, as it appears to these poorer families, is a great opportunity to get a chance at making a life. Their children will always been employed, and it ensures good government benefits like medical and dental.
In the case of a draft, it isn't really the children of middle-income and high-income families that will be forced to go to war. Most likely, children from these families will be enrolled in college or even graduate school. Even more likely, they will be some of the last people to be drafted. The people who will be first to be drafted will be, not surprisingly, the ones who need the money the most and those who don't have a chance of going to college.
This truth is sad. But a part of this truth is that people who have a college degree become officers and have a chance to move up in the ranks. The higher the rank, the less chance that you will have to go out into the throes of the war, fire a gun, and have a gun fired at you. For the most part, it's America's poorer boys and girls who get shot on the front line, not the privileged offspring of the upper crust.
Even if President Bush and all the Congressmen's children were to go off to war, they would likely never see the battlefield.
2006-07-09 23:07:13 · answer #2 · answered by Eames 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's been said, but it will be said again because it's correct. We have a volunteer military. The children of politicians can make the decision to join or not just like everyone else. Candidates running for office always seem to be judged on whether or not they served in combat, and if not it is held against them. No where does it say in the Constitution that a congressman/president/senator need serve in the military to be qualified. Sure, most of our early leaders were veterans, but that was because in those days that's what you did if you were a gentleman, just like today you go to Yale. If George Washington had had a son, he probably would have joined the militia at age 16 at the rank of major or colonel. Was that fair? Of course not. Nowadays people join the military to improve themselves - receive job training or earn money for college. No one forces them into it - it's a good path available to them to get ahead in life. The majority of soldiers aren't killed or wounded in war and the majority of them never fight in a war. It's a risk they take but there's also a reward. No one is picking up poor people off the streets and sending them off untrained into the front lines to die.
2006-07-10 00:22:19 · answer #3 · answered by vu_crusader2002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO it is VERY unfair, they don't mind if other children get sent off to get killed and sacrifice for us, but would they? NEVER in a million years, a few will but MOST will not. I think we need a law, a new one which would be presented and voted on by the people of the United Stated of America. I don't know how they all sleep at night, knowing this war is going on and killing so many of our young people. Pray that this war will be over. President Bush has an egotistical problem. Bush just doesn't want to be proven wrong. And mom and dads are the ones to suffer the loss of their own children. I couldn't walk in Bush's shoes right now. Since his father started Desert Storm, Bush just may want to finish what his father didn't to prove to the world what?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-07-09 22:40:06 · answer #4 · answered by jj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if there was a draft, their children would not go to war. Bush couldn't even live up to his obligation to the National Reserve. Even if you hear on the news that some big politicians son or daughter is in Iraq or some other war, don't believe it. It wouldn't be true.
2006-07-16 22:00:53 · answer #5 · answered by nobluffzone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we have a volunteer military. This means that only the people who volunteer to join are in the military.
Besides, having the son/daughter of a known politician in Iraq would needlessly endanger that person's life but the lives of the soldiers he or she is serving with.
Besides, if you are saying that other people should be in Iraq - shouldn't you 'set the example' and join the military yourself?
2006-07-09 23:04:03 · answer #6 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
President Bush didn't go to the war of his generation which was Vietnam. Many politicians in his age range weren't in the military during that time. They probably got college deferments.
It's my belief that they think they are "above" everyone else and don't think their kids should go to a foreign land to fight and possibly die.
Sometimes I think that people like President Bush doesn't see the human face of the soldier that he has put in harm's way.
2006-07-09 22:25:40 · answer #7 · answered by Juanitamarie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one is sent to war against their will. Everyone serving in the war volunteerly signed up for the military. Of course so many people sign up for the military thinking they are going to get money for college, and free training and benefits and all but when it comes to going to war (defending our country is the main point of joining the military) they start complaining. Military service is a commitment to our country and you cannot be a "weekend warrior" if your service is needed to defend our country. No one has been drafted in years so if you don't want to fight for your country if needed, don't join the military.
2006-07-09 22:23:38 · answer #8 · answered by reallyfedup 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because serving in the military is voluntary. Nobody is keeping Bush's kids or any congressman's kids from serving in battle. And for that same reason, Bush shouldn't be held responsible for their deaths, the terrorists who are killing them should be.
2006-07-10 00:03:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you kidding? Their klids might get hurt or killed!!! Send someone elses!!! Hey, Prince Andrew fought in the war against Argentina.
2006-07-16 19:36:17 · answer #10 · answered by D Ulonewolf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋