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Key Democrats Aim to Bring Back Military Conscription
"Key Democrats in the House and Senate will renew calls for the military draft as part of a critical barrage they are preparing to launch against President Bush over the length of troop deployments and the heavy reliance on reservists in Iraq."
É útil reler Russel Kirk:
"The War Department is conscientiously urging peacetime training because it would be of some military utility.... The Secretary of War and the Chief of Staff are not social architects. They are not employed to calculate costs other than military. But there are games not worth the candle. Jew-baiting was contributory in some degree to German military prowess, for it hardened the mind and conscience of the average man, and, as Napoleon is said to have put it, "The worse the man, the better the soldier." We do not believe the moral cost of intolerance to be worth the military gain. The question of conscription may be parallel. Would the wasting of men in the unproductive field of military training and the disruption of the life of millions of young men be too high a price for a possible increase in armed strength? A builder may tell you truthfully that a house of stone is the most durable sort of house; it is not his business to judge whether you can afford a house of stone. Just so far is the War Department a judge of the desirability of conscription. In matters of social welfare, there can be no satisfactory authority but society en masse.
Not long ago no policy of the Nazis was more decried than their regimentation of young men and women. And yet, now that the Nazi is dead, there are those among us who would make of him an image, and, in defiance of the Decalogue, worship him. For the mass of men there is no tyranny more onerous than that of military life."
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