Should the draft be reinstated?

This is an article I posted on Helium.com not long ago. I'm thinking it might be a good idea to do a documentary on this possibility. I voted on the "No" side.

Here's the article I wrote:

The draft shouldn't be reinstated. The draft was done away with for a good reason. Take a look at what happened during the Vietnam War. What's going on in Iraq and Afghanistan mirrors what had happened during the Vietnam War. My family had lived through the whole Vietnam War and had witnessed horrible atrocities at the hands of both the American and VC forces. There was a total lack of discipline on the side of the United States forces.

When there's a draft, it shows that the government is desperate to replenish troops. Many people were forced into service and they didn't want to be. They're not going to be motivated to fight for the government. Especially when they have to fight for something they don't even believe in. Then there were people drafted whom were thieves, druggies, drug dealers, murderers, rapists, and what not. Having those people within your ranks is going to cause problems with discipline within your ranks. Watching Apocalypse Now Redux, I could see how chaotic the Vietnam War was from the US Troops standpoint.

I think there would be possibly mass protesting throughout the streets of America's biggest cities and towns if the draft was reinstated. Iraq was the biggest issue for the '06 elections. Take a look at how the government jumps to help out other country yet they take their sweet time helping people in desperate need that happen to be living in this country.

Take a look at the Hurricane Katrina fiasco in which FEMA reacted extremely slow. There was a lot of mess ups at the local, state, and national levels. It was very long wait and chaos ensued. And there's still people looking for relief and recovery after Hurricane Katrina. When the Tsunami Disaster of '04 took place, the United States quickly reacted.

The United States quickly reacted in a matter of days to an incident taking place overseas. Here, the government took much longer in responding to Hurricane Katrina which was a domestic incident versus the '04 Tsunami which was an overseas incident.

Should the draft be reinstated, why would people be inclined to fight a "war" for a government that has seemed to turn its back on them. There's no logic. Forcing them to fight isn't going to help. It's going to make things much worse. Hypothetically should the draft be reinstated, a good number of people would be from the Southeast United States. That goes especially for the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. If I felt that the governement had turned my back on me and I was forced to fight for that same government I wouldn't be a happy camper.

With the immigrants, probably won't have that much of a problem. But we're at the point where the military has relaxed its standards because of the lack of people recruiting. They're going to repeat the same mistakes as they made in Vietnam. With a draft, the military will bring in people that have no business being in the military in the first place.

I wouldn't want to be sharing a foxhole with a druggy who's not going to kick it let alone kick it for the good of the country. I'm for certain I don't want to share a foxhole with a convicted murderer. I'd be pretty paranoid if that was the case. I'm pretty sure I do not want to share a foxhole with a rapist.

Keep in mind, the draft is going to be pretty prejudice. Politicians are going to find ways to keep their children from enlisting in the military. They'll find some loophole to avoid having their children sent off to war.

In short, the more well off are going to find loopholes. Everybody else is going to protest. Forcing people to fight let alone fight for a cause they don't believe in is basically something that's going to explode in your face. It's going to get more costly if the draft is in place.

http://www.helium.com/tm/358641/draft-shouldnt-reinstated-draft