COASTAL POST – MARCH 1, 2005 – Page 10
Ten
Reasons For Warm Draft
By
Over 122 million voted in
2004. About half of them think half of
Both halves need a people
driven policy that relies on
Why do we need the WSC?
1)
A dangerously growing portion of the world sees
The WSC helps erase
2)
Radicals and fundamentally ignorant terrorists use this
dangerously growing image to garner recruits from the world’s uneducated,
angry, and needy.
When these
potential recruits work with WSC members, the army of hating radicals shrinks.
3)
The global village is changing and our policies and
understanding has not kept pace. Most of
the 5-15% of passported Americans experience corporate, luxurious, Club Medish
travel. Too few work with global
villagers or urbanities, where we must work to understand cultures, languages,
and needs in order to fashion sensible policies.
Sargent
Shriver, the Peace Corps first Director, said, “If the Pentagon’s map is more
urgent, the Peace Corp’s is, perhaps, in the long run the most important… whether the nations where the Peace Corps
works succeed or not -- may well determine the balance of peace.”
Waging peace
is always more effective than waging war.
The economic spin-offs of investing in education, health, homes, and
infrastructure enriches rich and poor alike, while reducing blood spilling and
Pentagon dollar wasting. It is Moral and
Sensible Econ 101.
4)
Expensively teaching global villagers to kill too often
backfires. Our splendidly trained
counter-insurgents too often hone their skills against Americans. Too often spy money does the same.
When you help
a global villager to fish or increase his productivity, he and his extended
family remain forever grateful.
In today’s
conservatively skewed military budget, annually maintaining a soldier costs
over $358,000, whereas a Peace Corps volunteer costs about $40,000. In just one of many incidents, Halliburton
can easily misplaces over $9 billion intended for our soldiers and nothing is
done, while the Red Cross can put 90 cents of each dollar donated into program
and services; and Habitat builds needed homes abroad for as little as $800 to an average of $46,600 in the United
States.
5)
Our now
defunct universal draft defeated fascism, helped eradicate
6)
Democrats need this.
For too long
the Democrats haven’t inspired Americans with bold, visionary, viable
policies. The WSC implements JFK’s
unimplemented full-bodied Peace Corps that captured the imagination of the
world. Democrats don’t need “me-too but”
Republican policies. They need an
offense of bold, long-range difference making policies that Americans
admire.
7)
Republicans need this.
If today’s
Republican Party policies continue, in time voters will send them packing for
enriching powerful corporations and wealthy contributors, while protecting
their inheritance tax free sons and daughters from service. They need to stem that growing elitist image.
8)
Many Americans believe a military draft is coming.
Without a
policy that addresses the world’s endemic problems that lead to costly
interventions, many parents fear for their children. How many soccer moms would choose a military
draft over a year’s service to country and world that spreads harmony while
giving their children valuable world insights and job skills?
9)
Democracies grow when nurtured with good health, education,
communication, and understanding.
The WSC
peacefully and patiently nurtures.
10)
In 14 nations from
In 2005, only
39 Peace Corps volunteers show those 432+ million people
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