Letters to the Editor
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vietnam
The major difference between the quagmire of Iraq and Vietnam, and it answers in part the apathy of the public in actively opposing the war is that there is no draft.
I had hoped that 911 would activate the 20 something generation of which I am old enough to be a parent of. But that and the general abdication of responsibility of people within my own generation, or is it just a feeling of malaise and impotence having witnessed the dream of the 68 turn to self-indulgent mush, has allowed our experiment in democracy to deteriorate to this sad and frightening state of affairs.
Want to get people active, reinstate the draft and better yet, make sure that every Republican talking head that babbled the same cut and run blather so poignantly illustrated by The Daily Show’s John Stewart this past week sends their sons and daughters to fight.
In fact reinstate the draft in such a way that the future Cheney’s, Bush’s, Rove’s, et al must serve and not in some cushy no show post or deferment but actual front line combat, and on top of that why don’t we try to get a constitutional amendment that states that no President can start a war with out having actively fought in combat.