TalkLeft points us to the latest installment in the Draft Watch. It's the Katrina angle: the hurricane has exposed the reality of class in America as nothing in decades had. So Michael Rooke-Ley of the Eugene Register-Guard jumps to this conclusion:
If we are truly committed to bridging the gulf between rich and poor, black and white, there is no doubt that a dramatic transformation of our foreign and domestic policies is required. We can begin, however, by reinstituting the military draft.
It's a variation on the Charlie Rangel argument: the false hope that if the sons of the rich and powerful (drafting women will never get past the theocrats) are in the military, war will be less likely.
I'm inclined to believe otherwise: the sons of the mighty always find a way out and John Fogerty must have been writing about one George Walker Bush. A fully manned conscript army will facilitate foreign misadventures.
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