Bring Back the Draft!

I’ve been thinking about why the US population is so oblivious to U.S.-initiated wars and the destruction that they bring; both to the US and its foreign victims.

The average US citizen isn’t very bothered by the death, damage, and misery the US military inflicts worldwide. The majority seem not to care at all.

But I figured out why.

The reason why is that too little US citizens experience the military, and have to live with the nasty consequences of war.

This also makes most US citizens quite complacent, and ignorant of world affairs. If more of them served in the military, then they’d be more interested in what their country’s military does, how it does it, and in the ugly results of the military’s actions. US citizens would then hold the government more accountable for its policies.

US citizens generally don’t care about these wars and what happens if it’s ‘someone else’ who does the fighting and dying. But when everyone is expected to put their ass into the fire, they’ll start caring, because at that point it will be, literally, a matter of life and death for all of them.

That’s why I believe that the military draft must be brought back, for males and females.

This would finally wake up all these corn-syrup fed, iphone hugging, coffee-swilling lard-asses and pathetic flakes from their consumerist comas, and force them to think beyond just a few hours into the future.

When the military becomes a must, many of these people, and their families, would personally experience the danger, anxiety, and loss that comes from being in the military and from knowing that their son, daughter, brother, sister may be sent somewhere to die.

The age-old instinct of self-preservation would kick in with a vengeance.

People would start educating themselves about what is going on in the world, and would begin scrutinizing the US government’s every word, action, and policy. Protests against the draft and wars would also force people to wake up and educate themselves.

It also comes down to simple psychology: When people are forced to do something dangerous that may cost them their lives, they’ll start scrutinizing the reason for that action very closely, and won’t let propaganda, bare-faced lies, and manipulations by war-hawk demagogues to slip by anymore.

The draft would also do wonders for the USA’s bulging waistlines as well.

By bringing back the draft, US citizenry would finally start asking questions, and holding the government accountable for what it does. This would have very dramatic, and positive, repercussions for the entire world. Bases would close, soldiers would come home, needless wars for profit would have to be wound down, military budgets would be cut, and more people would get to live to a ripe old age.

Now, wouldn’t this be a better idea than perpetual, wasteful wars fought by only those who want to?