A Call To End The Draft

When the American Civil Liberties Union affirms that “compulsory military service, whether in time of peace or war, is always a severe deprivation of civil liberties,” neither the liberals of the Left nor democratic socialists take sufficient heed. We tend instead to be more alerted to other, but less commanding issues like the need to extend draft exemption to a broader category of objectors or to cleanse academia of its new-found guilt over Grades for Death. In our impulsive response to the class and racial inequities of Selective Service, which shamefully concentrates America’s underprivileged youth in the front lines, we find sudden support from Secretary of Defense McNamara. The whole system of military conscriptio...