Afghanistan Vet Elliot Ackerman: Why We Should Bring the Draft Back

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

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🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Author and war veteran Elliot Ackerman holds a very unpopular opinion about the draft: he supports it, but only because he thinks it could be a good thing for Americans. He joins this bonus episode of The New Abnormal to explain why he holds this take and how he sees it ultimately helping create more peace and less war. Plus, he shares his experience trying to evacuate people, including the Afghan girls’ robotics team, out of Afghanistan and what his new book The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan is all about.

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0:31.6	Hi, I'm Molly Johnfast, no relationship to Kim Jong-un.
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1:08.0	Hello and welcome to another Sunday bonus episode of the new abnormal.
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1:13.0	Today we have an extra special guest with Elliot Ackerman,
1:15.9	who's a former Marine Corps special operations team leader
1:18.9	and the author of the fifth act, America's Ending in Afghanistan.
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