When asked about the possibility of a draft Karoline Leavitt our White House Press Secretary gave an odd answer.

"It is not part of the current plan right now but the president again wisely keeps his options on the table."

Our president was given a medical deferment because of "bone spurs" when he faced the draft for the Vietnam War. Common among the children of the wealthy. 58,220 U.S. soldiers died in Vietnam War. The war killed well over a million people.

To produce the political will to have a war on that scale and a draft there would probably need to be a serious terror attack on the US.

Though I wonder, if 9/11 happened today would the same people who rallied to the US and felt bad for us do the same. Or would much of the world just shake their head as you might at a child who plays in the rock pile where you told them there were rattlesnakes?

And also the child is the biggest rattlesnake somehow. Metaphors suck.

@futurebird after 9/11 Iran sent condolences to the people of New York and offered intelligence about bin Laden to the USA. The USA refused any cooperation and ended up spending 20 years occupying Afghanistan and (apart from catching BL in Pakistan) achieving absolutely nothing in that time.
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