Dodging the Real Story Behind the Draft

You know the election is looming when pundits and bloggers start fussing about a possible draft under a second term of George W. Bush. But Raleigh talk show host Captain Craig Marks doesn’t buy in to the story, or the fear-mongering that’s behind it. The retired Special Forces soldier used Roy Cordato’s “Locker Room” blog to debunk the draft story on his WPTF show this week. Cordato explained that if history is any guide, a draft is most likely to occur under a Democratic administration. It was Richard Nixon who repealed the draft and Jimmy Carter who brought back registration in 1980. Cordato also noted that when Woodrow Wilson instituted the Selective Draft Act of 1917 he also outlawed volunteering. “It seems that the socialist/progressive governing elite of the time thought that to allow any freedom at all would yield results that would be less than scientifically efficient. The central planning mentality distrusts all that it can’t control,” Cordato wrote.