Normally I don't consider very much anything the democrat windbag Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) has to say but his call for a return to the draft (and to include women) is being touted.
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-ea … king-syria
I definitely think that if our military were composed of draftees voters would be quicker to decry military involvement in other countries when there is not immediate threat to our own. It seems as though a lot of voters today are very nonchalant about our military undertakings because they don't have "any skin in the game."
If we didn't go to a draft during Iraq/Afghanistan, it's pretty hard to see a situation where we would. It might have to be something like a WWII, God forbid.
Currently the fundamental structure of the American ‘great experiment...’ a government of, by, & for the people... has basically weakened- barely able to hold up the facade of the world’s super power. No one trusted the governmental armed forces following the Vietnam War, so the military would never have enough public support for more wars if the public had a stake in them. By removing the American involvement of the common citizen majority, the military backed by the large arms manufacturers, who fund the politicians, who run the government, using righteous polemics receive just enough of the majority votes to make wars acceptable. War has become a topic of conversation not a reality of cause and effect.
So, it is better to have an honest universal draft like in Israel, but the world’s wealthy (... there are exceptions... but few) feel that they are above honesty and find ways to ‘dodge a draft’ using their financial advantage... In Israel many rich people send their kids to the US and England to dodge their draft. There is a reason the wealthy consider themselves privileged. If all people didn’t cheat there would be no wars. What would happen if, like in England, American politicians just said no to war? It would be considered inhumane... And not at all profitable.