Re: Women involved in combat (was Re: fu&^%$#@!@#$%^&*()@#!~!`)

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From: Barry Shein
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 00:00

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From: davehs@ix.netcom.com (David Hutchings)
>As it stands right now it would take an act of Congress to reinstitute
>the draft.  There would have to be a declared war for that to happen

You don't mean that literally, you're just hypothesizing that only a
declared war would give Congress the political climate needed to
reinstitute the draft, right? All it actually takes is a vote.

>and the next war would not last long enough for them to institute the
>draft again.

I dunno, a sizeable war might likely have some sort of run-up of
hostilities that might go on for months or even years. Raising a huge
sea of faces in uniform might be one sabre to rattle along the way.
Particularly if exactly that became a propaganda issue on the other
side ('they only have 1.3m soldiers, we have X times as many! they'll
just surrender if we show up!') and was giving them courage.

Yeah, it's not that simple, but just some thoughts...

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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Women involved in combat (was Re: fu&^%$#@!@#$%^&*()@#!~!`)
Date: 1996/09/07
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