As for including women in the draft, you can whine all you want about sexism and discrimination, but the government will have to fight me for my granddaughters!
Burlington County Times, Edgewater Park, NJ
by Dixie Lee Patterson
This country most certainly does not need a draft. The US has troops in over 160 nations around the globe, where they are not needed. The war in Korea is over. The war in Vietnam is over. There is no war in Germany or Macedonia, or India, etc. If troops are needed to reinforce the (undeclared and unconstitutional) war in Iraq, bring back the troops from all over the world where we have no business being in the first place.
If we removed troops from all these places, we could reinforce Iraq and protect our own borders. That would go a lot further toward fighting terrorism than what is being done now.
As for including women in the draft, you can whine all you want about sexism and discrimination, but the government will have to fight me for my granddaughters!
Dixie Lee Patterson
NJ Chapter of Mothers Against the Draft