Jon Stewart thinks we should bring back the draft

2014-11-06T23:51:20+00:00

He does state every young person not just males. He is talking more about community service than a military force.

There is some merit in it if it could be used for the benefit of the participants and not the government. There needs to be something that gives more cohesion than we currently have in society.

jcea_ · 2014-11-06T23:53:10+00:00

The article title is a fairly misleading. He advocates a universal one year service to the country for all citizens which would include military service but also non military civil service as well among other things. So it's not bringing back anything but a new program.

Riktrat · 2014-11-09T16:24:54+00:00

I do. I absolutely do. I’ve watched military families suffer in a way that is unconscionable considering the demands that we have placed on them over this ten-year period. When I say there should be a draft, I also think it should be noncompulsory military. There should be a draft where every young person has to do one year of something — military, public works — something so that we all feel invested in the same game, because that’s the part that we’ve lost.

So a mandatory public works/support system based around the idea of a draft constitutes outrage now? The call to public service should be one we can all rally around to improve our society at low cost and with a unifiying system.

mindscrambler26 · 2014-11-06T23:42:20+00:00

Too bad we can't force people to care about a cause as opposed to forcing them to work for a cause...why can't we control other people's feelings?

Title	Jon Stewart thinks we should bring back the draft
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Date	November 6, 2014 11:40 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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