[geeks] Special skills draft?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 23 Sep 2004 @ 13:35 -0600, Dan Duncan said:

> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:19:07AM -0700, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> > He proposed a draft so that politicians (whose own kids
> > would also be elligible for military service) would be far
> > more cautious when waging war. It is always easier when
> > somebody else's kids are doing the dying to go gun ho.
> 
> Now if only we could get Congress to enroll in Social Security instead
> of being exempted like they are now...

Either that, or just enroll them in the military as "shock troops".

Send them in to do things like test mindfields, check for snipers, and
so on.

When you run out of them, there are plenty of lawyers.

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