Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first counselors dealt especially with problems revolving around drugs and the draft--two issues that Postolos called "signs of the times...
...think it is up to Americans or outsiders to draft solutions for the South Africans," Hoffman said. "It is with one's enemies that one makes peace," he said, arguing against third parties intervening in South Africa's crisis...
...even more importantly, a draft of manpower to replace money spent on social programs misses the underlying reasons behind the failure of America's public welfare commitment. As residents of the wealthiest nation in the world, American citizens cannot be allowed to evade their tax commitment to the needy. It is ironic that the politicians supporting national service want to draft 18-year-olds, rather than having the courage to ask the parents of these youths to pay more taxes. More to the point, while these 18-year-olds could derive the same benefits from voluntary programs, no year...
...military draft would also spread money so thin among those who serve that those young Americans who view the military as a pragmatic means to receive scholarships and training would lose out. Augmented incentive programs for both types of service would be far more equitable. More importantly, a military draft diverts America's attention from the need to bolster the peaceful forces of food and diplomacy...
...America's peacetime military draft, which ended in 1973, had not been declared Constitutional during the Vietnam conflict, America's involvement in the undeclared war in Indochina would have been limited. Likewise, without a constitutional partial military draft today, war may seem less inevitable. In the event of a conflict Americans of all backgrounds should be universally drafted; but the nation should not actively prepare for such a possibility...