This is not about whether or not the draft will be reinstated, please don't attack the question on those grounds. I'm just curious as to who would stay and who would not.
2006-12-20 09:27:11 · 13 answers · asked by spewing_originality 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I'd be tempted to make a stand like Muhammad Ali ("no Viet-Cong ever called me a n*gger"), but life's really too short for that, and I don't feel like pulling a Malcom X (refusing to leave my cell while I write a book). I'd probably leave to South America, with a big middle finger raised to whoever thinks they can tell me what to do. There isn't an enemy worth fighting on this planet, other than the man who tells me I have to fight. America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but it is not worth dying for.
In other words: I will fight for my freedom, and the only one who has ever tried to take it from me is America.
2006-12-20 09:38:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This time, if I was drafted, I would DEMAND that they take me and not force me to sign a 2-S deferrment simply because I was in college like they did during the Vietnam war. I can tell you that I have lived decades of misery knowing that, college educated as I was becoming back then, the Army itself stopped me from being a part of them simply because I had finished my freshman year in college. You'll not know till you live it just how miserable it is to know that had you had your head screwed on right, you coulda done right for your country, but were twisted and turned around by some woman in the downtown Dallas office to sign a 2-S deferrment so you wouldn't have to go to the war, whichever war it may be. And you'll never realize how rewarding it can be to know that, while others were protesting or just being a bunch of lazy-assses and wouldn't stand up for their country in tough times, YOU had the guts to do so. But I can't roll back the time, and I'm too old now to fix the problem, so all I can tell you is, don't let yourself fall in the same old trap of being a self-indulgent, immature, irresponsible whimp and get out of being in the military when your country needs you most. God Bless you.
2006-12-20 17:37:21 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would go if I got drafted, but I am 22 and out of college, so that may be unlikely.
I think we should issue a FAKE draft, and everyone who flees to Canada or Mexico should not be let back in.
2006-12-20 17:28:59 · answer #3 · answered by i hate hippies but love my Jesus 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well unless the reinstate the draft tomorrow and I get selected I am not going to have to go!
2006-12-20 17:30:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would not qualify due to medical reasons. I would have gone had I not had the problems I do after 9-11.
Anyone who will not fight for their freedom is a coward and should be shot for treason. I am sick of the spoiled brats in this country who bad mouth America, the military, and capitalism, yet want to benefit from it.
2006-12-20 17:47:40 · answer #5 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm to old for the draft, so I'll stay here and laugh at the jackasses thet voted for Bush.
2006-12-21 02:53:05 · answer #6 · answered by bettysdad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would stay in the U.S. & I would fight if I must. Mainly, I would be there trying to protect the lives of other American soldiers and citizens, no matter what lame-brained war the politicians have gotten us into.
2006-12-20 17:46:17 · answer #7 · answered by Dave of the Hill People 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite honestly... if Bush were still president and the draft is reinstated... i would leave the country. i would not put my life in danger for that man. For someone else maybe, but not him. he who ran and hid when it was his turn for Viet Nam?? Nope... would not fight for him.
2006-12-20 17:30:57 · answer #8 · answered by Debra H 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I wouldn't leave I wouldn't enlist. IF I get drafted I'll go. If not, I won't go.
But I'm not leaving America. I like it here.
2006-12-20 17:28:48 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
everyone should give 2 years to the military, draft or not.
2006-12-20 17:36:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋