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...Bush's speechwriters were having trouble understanding what he wanted. He sent back draft after draft. The morning of the speech he was still dissatisfied. "Watch and listen closely," he chided aides, "so you'll get this right." In a Kennesaw, Ga., high school gym, he delivered a skillful, largely ad-libbed 40-minute seminar on the virtues of his tax cuts as if he had been teaching the topic for 20 years down the hall. But almost no one heard it besides the rapt audience inside the gym. Terrorism alerts and the conflict with Iraq have consigned the President...
Both authors were paid a lump sum for each draft of their work, and will receive royalties on each book sold. The glossy, five-by-seven handbooks sell for $6.95 each...
Trends in America defy traditional beliefs about women in the military. While women cannot be required to register for a draft, a growing number of women are volunteering for military service. In 2002, there were 212,000 women on active duty serving in nearly every type of unit, including combat units. Over 40,000 women fought in the Persian Gulf War of 1991, and one out of every five women in uniform was deployed in direct support of the troops in Iraq and Kuwait...
Times have clearly changed, and the role of women in the military has changed dramatically, as well. Women have finally begun to break through the glass ceiling and have achieved a level of equality never seen before. However, their exclusion from the draft only confirms the military’s persistent doubts about the capability of women to fight wars. Granted, not all women are capable of fighting, but then again, not all men are capable either...
...approach another war with Iraq it is hopeful and likely that a draft will not be necessary. Nevertheless, as long as the Selective Service System is in place, women should be required to register. After all, as the Department of Defense concluded in its 1981 review of the Selective Service System, “the success of the military will increasingly depend upon the participation of women...