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channels. It was only a half hour long. It was about the history of the draft, and they had a professor there who briefly outlined the history of the draft.
The second half of the show, they had Charlie Rangel. I like Rangel, but I almost changed the channel, because I felt like he was going to plug his proposed draft bill. My thoughts were: he's made up this draft bill--with no exceptions--to prove a point, but he's gotta pretend he really wants to bring back the draft, because that's PART of proving his point. (His point being essentially the same as your point.)
To my surprise, Rangel freely stated that he was proposing his draft bill for the sole purpose of proving the point that you just made.
The professor chuckled and said what he was doing was laudable, but he also said something that weighs heavily on the minds of those who actually have draft-age children: He said, "Your plan is good, but as for passing the thing, having draft-age sons, I'm not sure I'd like to try this experiment, because we have an Imperial Presidency at the moment, and it might backfire."
Charlie replied, "Don't worry... before it ever got passed, it would have to be debated, and the debate on it would end the war."
I felt better after that.
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