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Afghanistan Vet Elliot Ackerman: Why We Should Bring the Draft Back

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Do You Think We Can Bring Back the Draft in Peace Time?

You wrote about bringing back the draft, a very controversial idea. Do you think that could really solve the capricious with which leaders go to war? Why? I think it would certainly solve the Capriciousness with which leaders went to war. The result of that construct is that the american people have been anathothized to the cost of war. We don't feel the war. It's not a critical issue in American political life. And our pol tians thus have been given this very long leash to go out and wage war. That lack of accountability is what leads to 20 year wars. If we had a us Military to day where maybe five % or ten%

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