The House of Representatives has removed language from the 2017 military spending bill requiring women to register for the draft, but the battle over the issue continues, with intense debate ongoing over the Draft America’s Daughters Act.
While most of the Democrat leadership appears supportive of the measure, Republicans are deeply split on the issue, and even moreso in the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R – KY) is leading the pro-draft camp, Sens. Ted Cruz (R – TX) and Mike Lee (R – UT) are against, and Sen. John Cornyn (R – TX) is urging both sides to just put the matter on hold and drop the debate on the touchy subject.
The Pentagon’s leadership has expressed support for expanding the registration to include women, though they likewise insist they oppose the military draft in general, preferring an all-volunteer system. Many of the pro-draft crowd in the Senate are arguing that they should do what the military wants, with Sen. Lindsey Graham insisting not adding women to the draft rolls means “taking half of the population off the table.”
Others are arguing that expanding the registration is “only fair,” though at least in the House there has been a backlash, with some bipartisan support for an alternative idea of eliminating the draft registration system entirely as even more fair, and far cheaper, alternative.
Drafting your daughters happens when your society has a death wish, especially when there are no immediate mortal threats to your society.
I say bring the draft back and make sure EVERYBODY knows that their kids will be dying to protect the golden parachutes of a handful of CEOs and politicians. Then sit back and watch the fireworks and the fraggings…
Exactly. You just nailed it perfectly. Drafting your daughters happens when your society has a death wish – especially, when there are no immediate mortal threats to your society.
In the history of mankind, no civilized society has ever sent its women into battle, as they knew quite well that doing so would put the society at risk of extinction. Women are the progenitors and nurturers of the next generation; and societies such as ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome never sent their women into battle. Even barbarian societies were loath to do so; but, unlike civilized societies, they did allow some women into their fighting forces.
However, the fiercest barbarian force in human history – the 13th and 14th Century Mongols – never sent their women into battle. Even they knew how valuable their women were to the preservation of their race. After all, these women were the progenitors/nurturers of the next generation.
Selective equality?
If they could take your daughter, too, could there ever be a war? Who’d be as thoughtless in those circumstances as they were for the others?
But it’s the wrong question, if the future of war is automated killing. They’ll be put on the same pedestals as marines the video-game killers in highly climate-controlled shipping containers and office buildings… Nabbing your daughter into that will be just like the forced ‘school’ ing they’d already took her for, only it’ll be sitting on her butt within some remote murder-related machine. A few decades more, and she’ll be doing the same from home.
How about a “Draft American Politician’s Daughters Act”?
I believe that the draft is illegal; involuntary servitude is banned in the USA.