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This is just silly. Rangel's proposed reasoning that if the rich and powerful had children in uniform then wars wouldn't happen is assuming so many incredibly stupid things that it's difficult to just pick one.
First of all I am old enough to remember when our country had its last draft. Although I left college to enlist the year before my draft number would have come up, I can still recall the anxiety of my fellow students whose main reason for being in college was to maintain their draft deferments. Those people would not and did not serve in the military. Oh some of them filled their perceived obligation to their country via the "peace corps" but the vast majority felt no obligation to serve whatsoever and did not make the slightest effort to do so. I suspect any new draft would have similar deferments for the children of those same rich and powerful. I have to believe that they will not serve again just as in the past.
Now I realize that Rangel is just posturing and I assume that he has no real illusion about a draft being reinstated but his assumptions are inane. His reasoning also suggests that we (America) start all wars and that if we would just stay home so would everyone else and peace would rule the earth; idiot! His presumptions are beyond belief but the fact that he has other people like the author of the above article now giving a draft consideration might be more unbelievable. I don't know about anyone else but, as I read the article I found myself just shaking my head.

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