Speaking today on the Senate’s new military spending bill, Democratic Presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton endorsed the legislation’s plan to require all women to register for the military draft, insisting that she is “committed to supporting and really lifting up the men and women in uniform.”
Clinton didn’t offer much elaboration on her position, but did insist that she believes the current volunteer military is still acceptable “at this time.” Among Democrats, support is strong for expanding the draft registration system, which is presented as a move toward “equality.”
While the Republican majority is split on the matter, there is also some bipartisan support for an alternative plan to do away with the Selective Service program outright, which would be every bit as “equal,” and a lot cheaper than registering everyone for a draft that doesn’t exist, and which most top officials insist, at least during election years, that they don’t want.
The last US draft lottery took place in 1972, and President Ford eliminated the registration requirement in 1975. President Jimmy Carter brought the system back in 1980 to protest Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and it has remained in place ever since. The Selective Service currently uses the slogan “It’s What a Man’s Got to Do,” and will presumably have to change that if indeed the Senate plan is adopted.
The House, however, has their own military spending bill, and their version removed the draft requirement for women from the final language. The two bills will have to be reconciled before they become law.
Evil democRATS & republiCANS selling rat poison as candy. We don’t need more people to be equally eligible to be hired killers for corporate expansion. We need to dissolve the military and live cooperatively and peacefully in the world.
I agree. Unfortunately, nothing is going to change while
corrupt politicians in both parties can be bought by the
corporate and military establishment.
The logical extension of a woman’s rights movement that has been commandeered by Hillary Clinton and the likes of Gloria Steinem who dated Henry Kissinger and worked for the CIA.
It isn’t about advancing women or working families. It is about exploiting them.
I would say that this narcissistic putz cannot abide to the 13th Amendment that completely disallows any and all forms of Involuntary Servitude … which is exactly what the Military Draft is.
I oppose SLAVERY in any form….