Two Essays on Different Topics

Michael O'Hanlon claims that a draft is not the answer even though he admits we do need a substantially larger standing military to sustain the Iraq mission for its duration. While he has a point about unfairness, as Quindlan (2001) points out, under President Jimmy Carter, when Afghanistan was invaded by Russia, the President, as well as the army chief of staff, asked at the time for registration of women as well as men" (Quindlan 99). She also points out that now one out of five enlistees into the armed services are women. In other words, women are just as eager- and useful- during the Iraq crisis as any other time.

To reinstate the draft would be the fairest means to assure equal sacrifice and equal service by all those eligible.

The fact that a draft would be unfair is not realistic. As Sherrel Wheeler Steward wrote: "Two months before President Bush ordered the U.S. military forces to invade Iraq, Rep. Charles Rangel introduced a bill in Congress to reinstate the draftà..he took the action to ensure that Americans would share equally in the sacrifices that would be made" (Steward 1).

Congressman Rangel, who is African-American surely was aware of the disproportionate number of casualties suffered by blacks in the military, and he surely felt that the idea of service and "sacrifice" should not be so skewed toward minorities. "While blacks make up a little more than 12 percent of the nation's population, t

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oncentrate merely on fairness, rather than finding means of excusing service. Reinstitution of the draft makes good sense. America's young people need to act, not shirk from duty, when it comes to assuring their future safety, security, and ambitions. It is patently unfair for a minority- and mostly made up of America's minority- to risk their lives for the benefit of the majority. America is, after all, a participatory democracy. WORKS CITED: O'Hanlon, Michael: "A Military Draft Is Not the Answer" Los Angeles TIMES, May 2, 2004. Quindlan, A. "Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha" from Newsweek, November 8m 2001, reprinted in Between Genders Stewart. S. W.: "Black Deaths in Iraq War Exceed Vietnam, week of May 6 û May 12, 2004" Wilmington DE: The Wilmington Journal, May 6, 2004 Question 2: Creamer's Article: We have all been assaulted by rudeness of one kind of another. Anita Creamer obviously keeps closer track of people's rudeness. She comes from a line of polite people. That of course, is all to her credit. The problem is not merely pointing of the rudeness of being on a cell phone, treating a server with contempt (hitting an ice cream scooper over the head!
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