the discussion about an early version of this essay, they want to reinstitute the draft as a way of turning the army into a vehicle for mass democracy.

Because we're all in the army now.

Yes.

Then that changes the army because then you don't only have just people who want to go fight.

Now you have people that are against the army in the army so that they can make decisions

like, why don't we not do this war over here?

Right.

Yeah.

You can't argue with it.

It's flawless logic.

It makes sense.

It's just like, well, how are we going to do that?

Right.

And this is where it does start to get even funnier.

He says, first of all, the body of eligible draftees would be increased by including everyone from 16 to 50.

Or if you prefer 60 years of age, that is virtually the entire adult population.

Such an unmanageable body would henceforth be incapable of waging foreign wars, let alone

carrying out successful coups.

In order to emphasize the universality of the process,

let's add that the handicapped or disabled, you might say, would all be found appropriate

positions in the system and that pacifists and conscientious subjectors would be placed in

control of arms development, arm storage, and the like.

...