Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former top commander of international forces in Afghanist an, said this week that the United States should bring back the draft if it ever goes to war again.
"I think we ought to have a draft. I think if a nation goes to war, it shouldn't be solely be represented by a professional force, because it gets to be unrepresentative of the population," McChrystal said at a late-night event June 29 at the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival. "I think if a nation goes to war, every town, every city needs to be at risk. You make that decision and everybody has skin in the game."
He argued that the burdens of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan haven't been properly shared across the U.S. population, and emphasized that the U.S. military could train draftees so that there wouldn't be a loss of effectiveness in the war effort.
Comment: Excuse us - if the US ever goes to war again?? When was the last time that the US was not at war in some part of the world or another - even if their population remains oblivous of the uncomfortable facts??
McChrystal is speaking like a true psychopath. Paraphrasing: "People should die in wars they did not ask for and which will not benefit them at all, against enemies of whom they have never heard of and who represent absolutely no threat towards them. Because it's cheaper than professional or mercenary armies".
How typical. Let's share the losses, but not the rewards.
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