Obama Supports Making Women Register for Military Draft
White House: Expansion of Draft a 'Logical Next Step'
by Jason Ditz,
December 01, 2016
The
announcement comes ahead of a planned House vote on a bill to study the
expansion of the military draft, or to potentially eliminate the
Selective Service outright. The White House has repeatedly insisted they
have no plans to bring the draft back, but want to force everyone to
register anyhow to “foster a sense of public service.”The administration opened all combat roles to women, and officials say they believe expanding the registration system is a “logical next step,” ensuring “gender equality” in forcing the public to register for potential conscription in future wars.
Though there is some call from some in Congress to do away with the Selective Service system entirely as an unused relic of the past, there appears to be considerable support for keeping it in place despite its practical uselessness, simply on the grounds that it doesn’t cost that much.
The Selective Service system was eliminated by President Ford in 1975, two years after the last conscription lottery. President Carter brought the system back in 1980 as part of a show of hostility toward the Soviet Union over the invasion of Afghanistan. The system has remained in place ever since, even though the Soviet occupation ended, the Soviet Union fell, and the US has been occupying Afghanistan themselves for the last 15 years.
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