Bring back the draft
With all this controversy over “boots/no boots on the ground” in our never-ending and costly involvement in Arab countries’ conflicts, it’s only fair to our burned-out soldiers and their families who’ve gone there and sacrificed over and over again, to bring back the draft so we all have skin in this game.
Our self-serving, cowardly politicians must stop worrying about their re-election and do the right thing for once in their lives and restore the draft. Especially, those GOP hawks who never heard of a war they didn’t want to get into, but also the Democratic doves who want to save the world from tyranny. There’s no other option to this futility.
Anna Pylant, Miramar
This story was originally published September 28, 2014 at 3:00 PM with the headline "Bring back the draft."