Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right word for these kids-a first draft of a word rather than a finished word, hopeful, awkward, the kind of word that experts in youth guidance adore. But-who can be against positiveness? Or Dan Voll? Or those who, in all their positiveness, devote themselves to children, as does Terry Giroux...
...favor registration of draft age individuals for possible future conscription...
...Reviving draft registrations will mean that thousands of young men, and possibly women, will again be subjected to government intrusion and channeling. Individuals' rights to privacy and conscience will be casualties of the military buildup. Although registration would undoubtedly be conducted in as low-key a fashion as possible, widespread resistance is likely to occur and our government will likely prosecute those who don't cooperate. Perhaps most dangerously, a registration will provide the Pentagon with a faceless pool of prospective inductees to be used in a largescale intervention overseas. A beefed-up standby draft system will expand our mobilization...
...national service" of young people, reveals the underlying philosophical contradiction in the current debate. McCloskey describes his bill--impelling a choice between active military service, one year of civilian service or inclusion in a lottery in case of war--as an "alternative" to proposals that only suggest reinstitution of draft registration. "We are sorely in need of a system of military recruitment that can provide essential manpower," says the man who challenged Richard Nixon for the Presidency in 1972 on the basis of the Indochina debacle. "At the same time, we are failing to utilize a vast reservoir...
...framework of military or civilian choice such as the one McCloskey offers, young people have no choice but to serve. The estimated $20 billion cost of compulsory service seems better spent on ensuring freedom of choice while making the volunteer army a more attractive alternative. The fear of the draft has returned and, in the post-Vietnam era, this is one ghost legislators might do better to exorcise away...