WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. John Kerry says re-electing President Bush would create "the great potential of a draft." Not so, responds the incumbent: "The best way to avoid the draft is to vote for me. The fact that both Bush and Kerry are on record opposing mandatory military service speaks volumes about the audience they're targeting with their dueling draft scares - young voters.
After all, didn't Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld say last year that "There isn't a chance in the world that the draft will be brought back?" Didn't President Bush agree during last year's second presidential debate, saying, "We're not going to have a draft so long as I'm president"? In recent years, mandatory military service has been eliminated in Spain and France, shot down again last year the U.S. Congress, and as recently as last week, proposed and shouted down in Canada. With polls showing Americans to be over 70 percent against the draft, bringing it back would seem to be political suicide. With the burden of proof squarely on the applicant, not surprisingly, CO applications aren't always approved by the overseeing draft board. Even approvals often take months or even years ...
Yosef "Tommy" Lapid, a brash Israeli political and media figure, died of cancer June 1, aged 77. Born in Yugoslavia, Lapid was a dominant figure among Israel's intelligentsia. As playwright, journalist and commentator, he brought an old European brio to the nascent Jewish state. Memories of the Holocaust, in which his father died, gave Lapid a keen sense of the importance of Zionism. But though he came to Israel as a refugee immigrant, Lapid vociferously championed a secular Ashkenazi ideal, to the exclusion of many fellow citizens. He was especially disdainful of fervently Orthodox Jews, seeing their religious dogma, large-family benefits and exemptions from mandatory military service as threats to the future of a democratic Israel. Lapid became a Knesset member on the secularist Shinu...
Although even many casual American observers are familiar with the rough outlines of Israel's present predicament, [Herb Keinon] believes that we're widely under-informed about the conditions that have led to the hawkish [Ariel Sharon]'s bold turnabout steps and the resulting political upheaval. "To understand Israel today is to understand the existential insecurities everybody has lived through over the past five years. The whole security equation changed during this period," explained Keinon, an almost theatrical speaker with a knack for injecting humor into even the most gravity-bound topics. A father of four, including a teenaged boy soon to enter mandatory military service, he captured the climate of ominous uncertainty in terms all in the room could understand. "The terrorist v...
June Riggio of Long Beach spotted a veteran named Ron Zaleski walking barefooted in the desert and promptly adopted his cause. The former Marine was westward-bound to generate support for mandatory counseling for military personnel before they're discharged from the service after serving in a war zone.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Many people say the insurance mandate in the March 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as "Obamacare," was the first federal mandate for citizens to acquire a private product. However, others point to the Second Militia Act of 1792, signed by President George Washington on May 8, 1792, as the first such mandate since it required all men conscripted into mandatory militia service to acquire a gun, ammunition, and related military items at their own expense.
The House of Representatives yesterday overwhelmingly rejected a Democrat-sponsored bill to revive a military draft in a last-minute vote scheduled by its Republican leadership to squelch rumors that the Bush administration is planning to reinstitute mandatory military service. For two months - especially on college campuses - they've used the draft as a fear tactic to get people to vote against George W. Bush," House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Texas Republican, said of Democrats.
With at least the virtue of novelty on its side, Vidi Bilu and Dalia Hager's debut outing as writer-directors tackles the claustrophobic world of Israeli women soldiers who work out their mandatory military service patrolling the streets and buses of Jerusalem, a job as tedious as it is dangerous.
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