As a woman who considers herself "progressive" and believes in gender equality and who also grew up in a miltary super-area and understands somethings that others may not, I feel that the draft shouldn't be open to women in the traditional sense. With men at war, who would take care of the country? During WWII, women did work that was noncombatant here and abroad, and during Vietnam, there were women there (as nurses, etc.), but not fighting. Imagine how female prisoners of war--and there have been a few--would be treated. Not saying that men are treated better, but there's the potential for so much bad treatment just based on gender.
Ultimately, I don't think there's going to be a draft. There's not much support for a war against Iraq (not that there was tons of support for the military "advisors" in Vietnam, but I digress). The US doesn't have much experience anymore with land warfare--which was one of a problem in Vietnam, that the enemy was expert at guerilla warfare and we weren't.
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