Kelli sent me this interesting artice in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that covers what positions both John McCain and Barak Obama take on the issue of women in the military and the subject of reinstating the draft.
Mr. Obama supports a requirement for both men and women to register with the Selective Service, while Mr. McCain doesn’t think women should have to register.
While I see valid points on both sides, I have to agree with Nancy Duff Campbell, co-president of the National Women’s Law Center, who believes that women should have a chance to compete for any position in the armed forces.
I’d love to see some discussion on this topic, especially from women who may have served or are currently serving in the armed forces. Do you think women should be drafted?
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117 comments
Curley
In the sixties men went to great lengths to avoid the draft and being sent to Vietnam, so why are women ready and willing to join them on the front lines, talk about the gift that keeps giving, exactly what are they trying to prove, that with a little gender norming and a whole lot of political correctness they can become equal to men, why would you want it and why stop with the military, how about letting men compete with women in the LPGA or other women only sports, do you remember when the LPGA was trying to keep men out of their tournament, while Michelle Wie was demanding to compete with the guys, were in a era where transgenders are going to be demanding the right to compete with women right down to demanding their right to use their bathroom and the reality is that a lot of men don’t care, in fact we might even join them, women have giving a a lot and are getting nothing in return for their quest to prove that they are equal to men, the problem with liberalism is their always looking for one that special women instead of looking at all women, remember this their are a lot of men who don’t want any part of the military or have any intention of dying for their country, so don’t be surprised when their leading the chant of hell no let her go while I stay home and make the coffee, americas has been living in a drug induced fantasyland since the sixties and now reality if finally cathing up to americans.
Alex
Really so you would really like it if we were all clones that’s what you call a peaceful world oh and no I actually believe in god and he made the world fr us NOT the other way around as you can see by all the bad things we’ve done. I do agree that there are some things that humans are just stupid about like war but so what. You say it wouldn’t be boring because it would have been like that for everyone’s life but so what that’s like saying the people in North Korea are happy to be in dictatorship why because they’ve been there forever. And yes we feel sad because of love but love helps us deal if no one loved no one would care or protect. What is your “perfect world” run by robots, you know why people take care of their kids, because they love them. Oh and I’m not replying to your last sentence because its not even worth it
Alex
Love…is relative. With love, there comes despair. There comes sadness and grief. Love is humanity’s greatest achievement…no doubt about that. But it is also our greatest downfall. I understand your standpoint Tyler, but sometimes, things must be done for the sake of the world. Which leads me to the fact that we could also kill every human on Earth to protect nature! Including you, including me. :) If there was a god or gods above, they would act and protect this world. Not through words, but by action. Anyone can say a thing. Not everyone can actually do it. It takes like 26 muscles to frown, right? And only 7 to smile. So smile? Why do that when it takes none to be indifferent?
Tyler
No alex just no that’s not how it works. One point i saw you make is that if everyone would look the same that would be good, it wouldn’t. For one ben identical twins pick oneach other for looks like ones hair is a little lighter than the other, two it takes away a persons identity and takes away of who they are. We’re supposed to look different. You also said their would be no true love, love is one of the strongest emotions if you don’t love your parents why would you listen to them, we NEED love. You keep trying to block out things that we need. Your “perfect world” is scary. Scarier than going to the depths of hell.
Alex (for short)
If anyone thinks about it, there is a way to end the draft! Anyone who has studied society knows that you can’t create a perfect world with happiness. For happiness is relative. You must have sadness to have joy. But you CAN make a controlled world with no emotion at all.
If no one knows anything that could change their way of thinking about the world, death, fear, pain, etc., then life would be the same every day. But put your thinking caps on! Everyone will be used to this lifestyle. Amendments to the way of lifestyle could be made with a decision of a council. Emotion introduced by puberty could be eliminated by use of a drug. So if a person didn’t get the person they loved, they would not be heart broken. No one would TRUELY love. Everything will be dulled. People can speak the same language. People can get things at certain times so there is no bias by the wealth. Everyone will be assigned roles that they WILL love. Everyone (except for difference by gender) will look the same. Or everyone could become a shemale! Genetics can create an ultimate colorblindness so no one looks different by color of skin, eyes, or hair. Genetics can also with enough time create people with relatively same height, weight, size of body parts, etc. America could create a huge draft, with everyone serving a position in the government or in the forces. America could wage war on the entire world, seize power, and control everything. No more wars. No more conflicts. Then, the revolution to change the world can begin.
Simplified form: NO WAR POSSIBILITY=NO DRAFT. Annoying voice: “But everything will be sooooooo boring!” Not if you have lived your entire life in this way. “What if a person develops emotion and tries to change the world around them?” They won’t. “What happens to all the history of the world? Isn’t that valuable?” No. It is SH*T for all I care. “What about motherly love?” Then people will not know their mothers and children. There will be artificial insemination. “But people have to learn their jobs, right?” True. Everyone will have to learn their part. But they will only know instructions, not why. People, do you see? This is the dawn of a new age! The PERFECT WORLD can be formed with the technologies, sciences, and knowledge we have…TODAY! We can start now! And begin the create the NEW Earth!
-Alex (13 yr. old)
P.S. I did not get this all from “The Giver”. I thought it up a year before I read the book. Lois Lowry seems to have the same ideas. Not sure if anyone will actually read this. Not sure if I will check. But this is not about WHO should be in the draft, that is a stupid question. Our world could be like this; Mother to daughter: “You SHALL NOT do boyish things like playing with Barbies!” Sexist: “Men should NOT be allowed to serve in the forces!” Ancient world: Females hunt for food. Males take care of children, gather plants, and prepare food.
Let’s think about ridding ourselves of the draft, shall we? I can do ideas, but not actions. So help. But then again, my dream is a long shot. So no one has to. You know what? forget about my ideas.
Lissy
The Draft should be done away with completely for both sexes.
Any future war that would require manpower would need more linguists and computer scientists than actual soldiers. Technology will be the way wars are won and lost. Not manpower. The government wastes 25 million a year supporting 130 people that work to make sure the list of names of men to be called up- in case of a draft- is up to date. That is a lot of money wasted in a country already in massive debt, for a list that hasn’t been used since the 1980’s.
The problems with the draft are manifold. Being that there are more women than men more women would be called up. That also opens up the armed forces for massive sexual abuses because there would not be the number of qualified women higher up to take the jobs required to oversee female units, as the military is currently being paired down from 700,000 to 300,000. Thus there would be endless corruption of males taking advantage of female soldiers.
I would have no problem with America being a country like Israel or Switzerland where ever person, male and female must serve in the military for four years. Then there would be true equality. But neither that, nor the draft will ever be popular to the majority of people therefore it should be done away with completely.
I am not saying that women can not fight. I am simply saying that the military would be better off if it let those women that want to advance to higher up that are qualified for it now be able to do so- without a draft being part of the equation.
I was a military wife for 4 years. I have lived on a military base and it is not a lifestyle that any smart person would choose to be a part of. It is vile, and makes Greeks on college campuses look like angels (if you get my meaning).
Barbie
If women are eventually drafted, it seems like nature’s way of getting rid of the excess of women created by feminism.
Michelle
That has got to be the most unintentionally hilarious post I’ve ever read. Thank you, Brace new world illuminates. Thank you.
Brave new world illuminates
No cause women have already killed more people by abortion than all of the wars on earth combined together, women have enough blood on there hands. “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” now it’s a highway. War is deception always. And “an army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and those for which society has no use”- a growing empire needs women to uphold homeland facilities and men to die expanding the front. Many men will die in our future and women will be the majority however will still remain under a comfortably opressive government.
Ty
Agreed