Congress takes its first step toward killing the military draft

[they don't love you like i love you]

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/2016/04/24/ndaa-hasc-selective-service-draft/83400482

Damn actually doing something useful for once!

[user12345]

Freedom move!

[Free Bird]

FF

[Leinad]

Good! The draft is nothing more than temporary slavery to risk your life killing people in what is always not enough cause for a war (if it was, enough people would volunteer).

The fact that government was inhumane and unrestrained enough to think that conscription was something they had the valid power to do in the first place sums up most of the reason why I'm a libertarian--why I don't think the government can, should, or even would fix all of these problems people claim it can, and why I oppose expansion of their power in nearly every instance.

I'll post this before I let loose with an angry rant currently forming in my brain.

[Reaganfan]

As a former member of the U.S. Air Force, I can say we have new technology and air power which is quite useful to the point to where I see the draft being obsolete. If needed in a situation like in WW2, where Roosevelt implemented it, it could always be used again in a dire situation.

[beaver2.0]

I sort of think we should keep it, just in case.  It should be expanded to female people as well.

[SteveRogers]

I sort of think we should keep it, just in case.  It should be expanded to female people as well.

If conscription is ever needed in some dire future situation, I'm pretty sure that in today's digital world a draft could be pretty quickly affected without the need for pre-registration.

[Mr. Reactionary]

I sort of think we should keep it, just in case.  It should be expanded to female people as well.

If conscription is ever needed in some dire future situation, I'm pretty sure that in today's digital world a draft could be pretty quickly affected without the need for pre-registration.

Yeah. I feel like the Social Security Administration would be capable.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Good news, although it's rather shameful that it took "but muh daughters" for this to happen.

[Ebsy]

It's hard to imagine a scenario where a drafted army would be effective with our current level of technology.