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Gates Considers Lifting Ban on Coffin Photos

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joncelli2/11/2009 9:32:11 am PST

re: #175 taxfreekiller

1. An army composed of people who don’t want to be where they are is less effective than an army of volunteers. Whatever beneficial social effects are realized from the draft are mitigated by the fact that reluctant soldiers don’t fight as professionally as those who joined by choice.

2. The draft could not continue in the environment of the early ’70s; it represented a social irritant too large to accept.

3. It is wrong to seize a young man’s freedom without his consent.