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Many critics believed that Carter’s reinstatement of draft registration was a political move designed to publicly demonstrate his military strength in response to the Iran hostage crisis and the recent Russian invasion of Afghanistan...
...context of Carter’s reinstatement of draft registration] suggests it was an attempt to show how tough he was and how he was preparing for military action against the revolutionaries who had taken over the U.S. Embassy in Teheran and held 52 hostages,” he writes in an e-mail...
Zinn also co-led a demonstration in October 1980 that drew around 1,000 people to protest Carter’s foreign policy, specifically the possibility of a draft...
...Carter had this image problem that people perceived him as a weak president,” says Rosenberg, who chaired the Crimson Editorial Board. “This draft registration was part of his ‘get tough,’ or ‘seem tough,’ policy, and our feeling at 20, 21, 22 years old, and as a fairly liberal group of editorial writers, was that this was a ruse. It had nothing to do with keeping the country strong. It was absurd. If there was a war with the Soviet Union, it would...
Rosenberg wrote a Crimson editorial in March 1980 arguing that “the real purpose of that draft would be to fight a conventional World War III in Europe...