Bring Back the Draft?

Sean Kenny

Mon Jan 28

Red Day, Block 2

Bring Back the Draft?

        Some people are arguing that we should bring back the draft. They believe we are making reckless decisions with our soldiers, only because they volunteered to fight for our country. They also believe that the public should 'have a stake in the wars we fight'. I think what we should do, is have people who have previously served or are currently serving make the decisions for our soldiers, not the president our the public. But not reinstating the draft. Not letting people have a say in weather or not they should fight is unfair, and some people really aren't meant to be in the armed forces. Putting these kind of people in could lead to even more of what happened over the past decade; more than 2 million soldiers have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Iraq war took more than 4,422 lives and wounded some 32,000 in nine years; to date, 2,168 American soldiers have died and 18,215 have been wounded in Afghanistan. Soldiers who did sign up to fight ended up in these conditions, people who are forced could be left even worse, and those numbers could grow, very fast.