Eeeh, not so much, there, General.
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When asked about his thoughts on implementing a draft on CBS’s Face the Nation, General Stanley A. McChrystal said national service would have a positive impact because it would “bind people to their nation” and “pull people together in shared experiences.”"
If you look at things only through the roseate lens of the common view of WWI and WWII, perhaps. The Civil War, Korea, and Vietnam? Not so much. The "people pulled together" and felt "bound to their nation" because they shared a generally communal belief in the threat and the justice of the response to it, not because they were melded by commingling with their brothers and sisters in the platoon bays.
Oh, and good luck affording that draftee army at volunteer pay rates.
The current war would have been over much sooner had it been fought with draftees. *That* is about the only plus I see to this utopian (and not terribly accurate, to my eye) view of the benefits of involuntary servitude of the state, outside an existential threat to the existence of the body politic.
But I'm a well known squish.
Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2013/01/on_a_return_to.html
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Jan 14 2013, 10:03 AM
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