Draft? I'm not even for the way we have it now!
"Volunteer military" is a misnomer. We have kids recruited in high school (only contract you can legally sign under 18), the age of adulthood was dropped from 21 (in the Constitution) to 18 to accomodate the draft, and instead of raising the draft age to 21, we allowed the smoking age and contracts to be signed at 18. I do not see an amendment which overrules the age of 21 in the Constitution (I could be wrong, correct me if I am, please). And even that law, contracts at 18, is defied by recruiters now, who sign CHILDREN at 17.
If we had a voluteer military it would look like the military that won the Revolution...70% come-and-go militia (literally came and went, battle to battle), and 30% standing Army (Continental Army).
How would that work today?
Instead of luring children from poor backgrounds into service with the promise of college money (seen as way out of their impoverished lives), we'd just offer universal service at a premium over non-universal service. So, say the government gets us to join on 9/12, but instead of sending us to Afghanistan, they send us to a war we may or may not agree with, not in self defense, like Iraq. In this case, you may be for it, and choose to sign on for the entire operation (not battle to battle, like the militia). This is important for functionality, troop levels being stable, and strategy. I, on the other hand, may be totally opposed to the war, so I will not go.
Universal soldiers, or those who sign on for any war anytime, are basically the Continentals who didn't have a say in which battles they fought.
Why did that Hassan dude shoot up that base? He didn't want to kill people who looked and prayed like him. The problem is he was forced to.
Any moral militray would operate as follows:
Two different levels of service, and pay, would be offered to recruits over the age of 21. The first plan is universal service, not being able to opt-out of any conflict the government sees fit. This plan pays vastly more than the non-universal plan. The Second contract would be voluntary service (not just paying semantical homage to it, like now), and pay way less than the universal contract. When a battle comes up, they can recieve a raise in pay, combat pay...if they CHOOSE to join the fight. This is also true for universal service soldiers, but they will always have a higher pay scale. Those who choose not to fight, will just continue their service in other ways, or at the discretion of the military, be layed-off like any other job when it is no longer needed. I suspect lay-offs would be rare.
Why do this?
Because if you can't get the consent of men to fight, the war is NOT justified.
No war in self defense requires a draft, and if you concede it does, you concede Americans are generally cowards. I would whole heartedly disagree.
How have they been able to fight all these immoral and unprovoked wars?
By having the threat of law to hold over soldiers who refuse to fight.
No just cause, like a war of self defense, EVER requires a draft. No people in HISTORY have EVER voted themselves into a war, EVER.
Without the threat of law, and prison or death, the State CANNOT find recruits for their nefarious bullshit they call "national interests".
DRAFT??????
We need to make our military MORE voluntary, not less. It would cause us to be less war-like, and more reserved in foreign policy.
And while we're at it...tax is theft. So next time you want a war, assuming our taxes were cut to allow this idea, GET DONATIONS. Between the people having to fund it themselves, and the mass amount of soldiers volunteering (or not), the moral justification for the war will be quantified...
....when the money in the donation fund, or the soldiers that volunteer for the operation (whether war, foreign aid to Japan, etc.), dwindle away so does your moral authority and ethical justification for the operation. It's that simple.
DRAFT?!
Sir, tyrants favor drafts. Read the quotes I have in my signature. I'll rot in cell before I go to war drafted...if it were self defense I'd volunteer.
