WILL there be a military draft?

[Javaman]

34. there will be no draft.

don't confuse sign ups with a draft.

two entirely different animals.

it's one thing to be gung ho and join up, but it's an entirely different thing to be drafted.

many men who went to Viet Nam joined before getting drafted because they knew they had a low lottery number. They chose to join so they could pick which branch they will serve in.

In WW2 the same thing happened. And please dissuade yourself that being drafted in WW2 was something everyone wanted. Unless you had an out, you knew you were going so you resigned yourself.

WWI had the white feather society bastards that shamed men in to joining up.

no matter who calls for it, a draft will never ever be popular and won't happen.

also remember, many of those who said they were going to "join up" to fight the "heathens" in Iraq, never did.

it all looks good on paper until the lead starts flying.

there will be no draft even if they attack here.

what I do fully expect is: if there is an attack, expect what's left of our civil liberties to vanish. and if it were to happen before election day, expect, one of the right wing morons to be elected and we slide into full fascism.