2007-06-12 03:27:31 · 17 answers · asked by ridefree69us 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
No, the children of these elected officials do not always share the same views and beliefs.
By the way, the military is an all-volunteer force. These soldiers knew what they were getting into when they signed the recruitment papers. Therefore, they are at the beck and call of their superiors. These soldiers are no longer individuals; they become tools of the government.
2007-06-12 03:55:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Since we have a volunteer military system,that would be impossible.If the People decide to go into a mandatory system of service it would prove detrimental.When you draft ,you draft the good the bad and the ugly.The military had to spend more resources during the "draft" years trying to mold persons that were totally incapable of discipline and learning . Some lacked the most basic social traits.What we now have is an excellent military that is costing less to the taxpayers.Besides there are many children of elected officials in the military right now.To make their names public would make them easy target for the terrorists. Remember the Prince Harry snafu?
2007-06-12 07:52:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If there was a draft, yes. But in an all-volunteer military, not unless they their children had volunteered.
It's like asking if the President and congress should be required to have their children fight fires before they ask the local volunteer fire company to do so.
2007-06-12 03:33:22 · answer #3 · answered by ² 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
regrettably, an excellent proportion of childrens that connect interior the militia come from low-earnings families. becoming to be a member of the militia, as curiously to those poorer families, is a huge possibility to get a possibility at making a existence. Their little ones will continuously been employed, and it ensures good government advantages like medical and dental. contained with regards to a draft, it somewhat is no longer in all probability the little ones of center-earnings and intense-earnings families which would be compelled to bypass to conflict. maximum in all probability, little ones from those families would be enrolled in college or maybe graduate college. much extra in all probability, they are going to be lots of the final people to be drafted. the people who would be first to be drafted would be, no longer exceedingly, people who prefer the money the main and people who don't have a possibility of going to college. This actuality is unhappy. yet a factor of this actuality is that people who've a college degree grow to be officers and function a possibility to bypass up interior the ranks. the better the rank, the fewer possibility which you will ought to bypass out into the throes of the conflict, hearth a gun, and function a gun fired at you. For the main section, it somewhat is u . s . a . of america's poorer boys and girls who get shot on the front line, no longer the privileged offspring of the top crust. whether President Bush and all the Congressmen's little ones have been to bypass off to conflict, they could in all probability in no way see the battlefield.
2016-10-17 00:34:15 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if their children choose to. This is America, it is a voluntary army. No one is forced to go. The people that are over there fighting made a choice to fight for freedom. They made a choice to serve the greatest country in the world. The troops do not want your pity, they want your support.
2007-06-12 03:32:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
If your looking for a candidate who backs up what he says look at McCain. Not only was he a POW in Vietnam, but his 3 sons are in the military, i think 2 of which are in Iraq.
2007-06-12 03:35:50 · answer #6 · answered by Dan R 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily in my opinion.The men and women fighting overseas,(that I know) all chose to be there.They are fighting for our freedom because they chose so.They know the dangers,the risks,and the glory of being an American hero.If the President's children don't wish to take that path,I don't think it should be neccessarily forced upon them,but it should be noted so..
I pledge allegiance to the flag,and to the soldiers who protect it!
2007-06-12 03:31:35 · answer #7 · answered by Artemis The Cunning 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The better is forcing them to stop the war and you have to remember that their children are just people like you and maybe they are refusing the war too.
2007-06-12 03:33:42 · answer #8 · answered by awgaa 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, let's make you pay for what your father does and see how you like that. This may be the most retarded line of questioning ever. As Carlos Mencia would say, "dee dee dee!"
2007-06-12 03:55:44 · answer #9 · answered by mikehunt29 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
IF the so-called 'war' is unconstitutional, illegal, unjustified and immoral (such as this one in Iraq), then the politicians who put us into that 'war' should send their children AND themselves (without special protection, and without cushy privilege). Just as judges who send people to jail should spend time in those jails, so should politicians who send people to 'war' should spend time in that 'war' - just to see how it feels! -RKO- 06/12/07
2007-06-12 03:44:33 · answer #10 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋