- Feb 1, 2008
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With all the world conflicts, major conflicts, and with imagining possible future war direct with Russia, involvement defending Israel if directly threatened from nuclear attack, and china if they became aggressive and took sides, then add in conflicts in all those oil rich middle eastern countries, if it looked like huge numbers of American troops would be needed across the globe to engage in war, how do you feel a national mandatory draft would go down with American society today?
Sorry. I didn't word that very well.
But you get the point.
I wonder how your typical teen, and typical young adult, would react to the real probability and likelihood of being drafted?
How parents wound react to their sons and daughters facing a real possibility of being drafted and going into war.
Not war as we know it on tv, or in some video game, but war where real live bullets and bombs are directed at YOU!
With today's invisible wars where war seems like just a video game.
Something you tune into CNN, for an hour to catch the shock and awe.
Wars where we no longer see the dead US soldiers coming home loaded off planes in coffins.
Wars where only those "other" kids choose to take part in.
Wars where war and death are seldom linked together beyond statistics.
Wars where personal detachment as a nation is all too easy.
Wars that we can just simply ignore and go about our personal daily life and concentrate on other things like that new HBO series, or that new iPhone release, or choosing which college the kid might attend.
What if that protected life of ours were not so protected after all?
What if some future president were to announce a draft of all eligible US citizens?
Put down your xbox controller kids, you're going to war.
Forget about college mom and dad, your kid is off to boot camp.
Considering how detached we are from what goes on around us, especially war and world events, I can not imaging the reaction from kids and more so from parents if a draft actually became reality.
What got me wondering was hearing that Israel is calling up some more 80,000 enlistments for their current conflict. I think it was some 80,000?
And how in Israel, it is mandatory anyone and everyone of age are obligated to duty if called.
No exceptions.
Something our American kids nor patents can relate to.
Nor required of since LBJ, Nixon and Vietnam.
And you remember how well that draft went down with America.
I can not imagine the reaction from today's average kid, or parent, where their kids were required to serve in the military, like it or not.
Personally I think our society would go absolutely insane over that reality of a mandatory military draft.
Even with a high stakes situation, we'd simply feel technology should do the dirty work.
Never our precious children.
Sorry. I didn't word that very well.
But you get the point.
I wonder how your typical teen, and typical young adult, would react to the real probability and likelihood of being drafted?
How parents wound react to their sons and daughters facing a real possibility of being drafted and going into war.
Not war as we know it on tv, or in some video game, but war where real live bullets and bombs are directed at YOU!
With today's invisible wars where war seems like just a video game.
Something you tune into CNN, for an hour to catch the shock and awe.
Wars where we no longer see the dead US soldiers coming home loaded off planes in coffins.
Wars where only those "other" kids choose to take part in.
Wars where war and death are seldom linked together beyond statistics.
Wars where personal detachment as a nation is all too easy.
Wars that we can just simply ignore and go about our personal daily life and concentrate on other things like that new HBO series, or that new iPhone release, or choosing which college the kid might attend.
What if that protected life of ours were not so protected after all?
What if some future president were to announce a draft of all eligible US citizens?
Put down your xbox controller kids, you're going to war.
Forget about college mom and dad, your kid is off to boot camp.
Considering how detached we are from what goes on around us, especially war and world events, I can not imaging the reaction from kids and more so from parents if a draft actually became reality.
What got me wondering was hearing that Israel is calling up some more 80,000 enlistments for their current conflict. I think it was some 80,000?
And how in Israel, it is mandatory anyone and everyone of age are obligated to duty if called.
No exceptions.
Something our American kids nor patents can relate to.
Nor required of since LBJ, Nixon and Vietnam.
And you remember how well that draft went down with America.
I can not imagine the reaction from today's average kid, or parent, where their kids were required to serve in the military, like it or not.
Personally I think our society would go absolutely insane over that reality of a mandatory military draft.
Even with a high stakes situation, we'd simply feel technology should do the dirty work.
Never our precious children.