Word: draft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best way--the only way--to ensure that the Neil Bushes of America are represented on the front lines in Saudi Arabia is to implement a draft for all men of fighting age, with no student deferrals at all. Put the rich, white, politically-influential young men from places like Harvard on the front lines of American foreign policy. Then see how eager the policy-makers are to commit America to wars like Desert Storm...
Such is certainly the case at Harvard. The Crimson ran a long feature about the mechanics of the draft and the possibility that it may return. The Perspective published a page of tips for those who might apply for conscientious objector status...
STUDENTS INVOLVED with the Peace Alternatives Exchange (PAX) often staff the "Peace Center" in the Greenhouse Cafe, answering questions and distributing literature about the draft. In recent weeks, PAX has sponsored several draft counseling sessions at Harvard, complete with strategies for conscientious objectors to dodge the draft...
...these are only contingency plans, to be implemented by young Neil Bushes if the draft does indeed return. Rest assured that campus antiwar groups will fight tooth and nail to make sure it doesn't happen...
...have been so low that people haven't really had to view this war in terms of the cost in lives," admits a White House official. Others note that patriotism is easy on the cheap -- and that nothing would concentrate the public mind more quickly than reinstitution of the draft. "That would really put the fat in the fire," says Dallek. Such a move is unlikely, however, since Bush said at a press conference last week that he had "absolutely no intention of reinstating the draft...