How do you feel about Democrat Al Sharpton's
idea of going back to drafting our American Soldiers
instead of the volunteer armies we now have??
2006-11-20 12:35:13 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I think it's terribly wrong, and it wasn't Al Sharpton, it was Charlie Rangel. Even though they look a lot alike and are equally dumb, they're two different people.
2006-11-20 12:38:09 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
do you mean rangel? Not Sharpton. He is an idiot because he said things in a way that ended up being exploited. If people take the time to read, he is trying to say that we should not start a war unless people believe in it to the extent that they would send their kids to fight it. He's said for years that more politicians kids should serve, that we would pick and choose conflicts a little more soberly then. For the record Im a Marine and I think he's got a point. He's also an idiot for saying it the way he did, since the media has only said "He wants a draft!!!"
2006-11-20 12:39:17 · answer #2 · answered by christopherryan_lt 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is the second or third time that Charles Rangel, NOT Al Sharpton, has made this proposaMF It's not that he wants a draft; it's that he wants American voters to actually support a war by sending their kids to die in it. Otherwise, it just becomes a war for someone else's kids to die while we drive around in our giant SUVs and pretend there is no war going on.
We are hypocritical, because while every other car has bumper stickers with "Support Our Troops" on it, in reality we don't support the war. Of course, many of those who don't support the war may support the troops, because they don't want to feel as we have forgotten them or that we blame them for Bush's tragic error in sending troops to Iraq. Of course, Bush tried to make the case otherwise - that if you don't support the war, you will turn your backs on the troops.
2006-11-20 13:02:27 · answer #3 · answered by Shelley 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A mandatory service of time (like two years once you turn 18) has pros and cons. It would discipline the young adults of America that currently have none. Would give skills to those that may have not otherwise have acquired them. However, the fact that it would no longer be voluntary, would weaken the forces despite the added number of troops. Those that feel they shouldn't be required to do it would only be looking a way out instead of protecting their buddy in the bunker with them.
2006-11-20 12:50:13 · answer #4 · answered by thephoneguy1234 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Contractors are thanks to flow. those dudes were at camp dwyer and leatherneck out in afghanistan. maximum vets do not want to manage the protection stress bullshit that consists of being in strive against. inner most contractors don't have that situation so undesirable. Plus they now as i comprehend it fall less than DOD. I basically were given off energetic accountability with the Marines. believe me. all of us were given pay cuts in the previous I left and contractors are nevertheless making them digits. i imagine it really is honest. fantastically at the same time as the U.S. monetary gadget is supposedly doing undesirable. Iraq replaced into over after OIF-9 and OEF3 so evidently the DOD would not want to be over there. Contractors and the state branch is searching after that. to boot U.S. officials do not want troops out in united states partying and performing stupid at the same time as they could be being extra useful elsewhere rather of kickin sand and fiddling with their palms interior the approach nowhere guarding oil fields.
2016-10-16 09:53:08 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it should be a choice due to the fact that the soldiers who volunteer do so because they want to honor our country. If we start forcing people to enlist who dont want to be there, how well are they going to want to protect us?
2006-11-20 12:39:03 · answer #6 · answered by nease174 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
really? a draft?
they better not reinstate that because a ton of americans will be mad at the government (i believe more than the people who want it back). we should just finish our business in Iraq and leave
2006-11-20 12:37:39 · answer #7 · answered by Phoenix 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I note that the Democrats didn't mention it before the most recent elections. Wonder why??
2006-11-20 12:38:19 · answer #8 · answered by jack w 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a great idea, then maybe there would be more protests about sons and daughters going to war
2006-11-20 13:41:30 · answer #9 · answered by xyz 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i hate it!!! my si sis 18 my bro is 17 and i would be so scared if they had to go to the war.
i already ahve cousins in the marines and one had to go to the war and i cried alot and was worried for almost a yr while he was over there
2006-11-20 13:04:17 · answer #10 · answered by gousa1991 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋