Social equality demands reinstatement of the draft

That's the view of some critics, such as New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, who writes that "very few" of the soldiers fighting in Iraq "are coming from the privileged economic classes," and that there would likely be no war if rich kids had to fight. According to Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., social equality demands reinstatement of the draft, which he justifies by asserting that "the most privileged Americans are underrepresented or absent." Herbert concludes that there is "something very, very wrong with this picture."

The Heritage Foundation on the other hand dismisses the whole idea as liberal bunk.

It the real world, both are dead wrong. The military in IRAQ is mostly reserves that were activated, not active duty enlisted.

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