SHOULD THE DRAFT BE REINSTATED? Will it be? What do you think? - CNN News Poll

UPDATE 8/07 — A Return To The Military Draft Is Worth Considering

Go to QUICK VOTE at CNN.com and cast your vote about whether or not to reinstate the draft.

There is also a link after you vote, giving you the opportunity to email your comments about the draft to weekends@cnn.com.
My vote was NO, and this was my email comment:

I think you should do a separate poll just for the people who say they WOULD like the draft reinstated. Please ask them…..Would they still want the draft reinstated if they new for sure that their son, daughter, husband, wife, or self, would be drafted?

Another words….Would they still vote for a draft, if they knew that if would directly affect them?

I believe that the best way to maintain a healthy military, is to give higher (competitive) salaries, have excellent veteran services, and to demonstrate (by example) that they will not be sent into unnecessary combat.

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Agree or disagree? Please let me know in comment how you feel about this subject and why…..Thanks.

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The Most Heated Space Race Since The Cold War - China’s Missile Program Taking An Alarming Direction - with YouTube video

In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, the carrier rocket Long March 3-A blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province Saturday, April 14,2007. China successfully launched a navigation satellite aboard Long March 3-A early Saturday, part of the country’s ‘Compass’ navigational system, which is expected to provide services such as positioning in transportation, meteorology, petroleum prospecting, forest fire monitoring, disaster forecast, telecommunications and public security, to customers all over China and neighboring countries by 2008. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Gang)

The Most Heated Space Race Since The Cold War - China’s Missile Program Taking An Alarming Direction

HEATED SPACE RACE UNDERWAY IN ASIA

TOKYO - Upstart China challenges the United States by blasting a satellite out of orbit. North Korea lobs a missile over Japan, prompting Tokyo to initiate a multi-billion dollar spy satellite program. India is readying a lunar mission, while rival Pakistan makes headlines with a new, improved warhead.

The most heated space race since the Cold War is under way in Asia, where countries are concluding that a space program is no longer just an expensive status symbol but a matter of national security. And they are scrambling to keep abreast. — READ FULL ARTICLE

CNN REPORT ON THE US VULNERABILITY TO CHINESE MISSILE

YouTube Video on Chinese Satellite Missle

CHINESE SATELLITE KILL CHALLENGES UNITED STATES

On Saturday, the country launched a Long March 3-A rocket that sent a navigation satellite into orbit as part of its effort to build a global positioning system, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The satellite is the fourth China has launched as part of the Compass navigation system, which is expected to be operational in 2008.

But some see the anti-satellite missile as evidence that China’s program is taking an alarming direction.

“The successful test of a Chinese direct-ascent anti-satellite weapon represents a new and dangerous phase of Chinese foreign policy,” said Tom Ehrhard, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, a military think tank.

“Despite official statements about its ‘peaceful rise,’ China aims to challenge the internationally recognized sanctity and neutrality of the ‘commons,’ those areas like international waters, airspace, cyberspace and space itself,” he said. — READ FULL ARTICLE

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