Military Draft

With the war in Iraq now dragging on longer than anyone would think it would and with all the armed forces being stretched to the limit in terms of manpower. Military officals have started looking at options to keep the troop levels up so far they have lowers the standards of recruitment, allow people with low level crimes to join, increased bonuses and increased college scholarships. With all of these added bonuses they are only still able to keep up their recruitment goals but now their is talk of another option that many do not wish to do but may be inevitable unless with begin pulling back our forces. That option is the draft. The draft has been used in WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam. After the war in Vietnam it has not been used sinceb ut now with the all-volunteer army being stretch close to the breaking point many people are looking at a limited or a full draft as a option to keep up or even increase the armed forces for the War on Terror. First off a few things before i continue

If they started the draft and if i was drafted i would go cause i believe when your country calls you to service you owe it to the country to answer.

Secondly if a person does not believe in the draft and left or dodged the draft i would not hold it against him or her.

Now personaly i think my generation need a draft now. The reason being is that we have forgotten that many of the freedoms we have are all cause of the draftees that came before us. Also, my generation has forgtten freedom aint free it has costs and the only ones we seee are the nightly news when someone we dont know is killed, however, if your friend dies then you know what you are fighting for and will fight harder to protect it. However, i worry about how a draft might seperate the country, already the country is divided by those for the war those against it. Or by dems or republicans. If a draft were to happen the country the is split now might become worse. With that being said if a draft were to occur today i would go willingly cause this country has given me many freedoms and if needs me to go into the lion's den to ensure that those freedoms are protected then so be it.