On the draft...

            When faced with the draft notice, O’Brien doesn’t know what to think. On one side of the coin, he thinks that he is a coward for thinking about fleeing. His family and community urge him to go, but he is afraid of fighting in a war that he doesn’t believe in.

            If I was in a similar position, I would have ultimately gone into the war, but not without a fight. I would be too afraid of legal consequences to not go into the war. Unlike O’Brien, I would be too afraid to run away. As O’Brien later realizes, running away was not the best option. It may ultimately be better to do what society asks of you, not because of the peer pressure from your community, but because of the favor your country is asking of you.

            In my opinion, a draft could never be implemented in the U.S. again. In a way, it goes against everything the constitution was made for.

            A study was done and found that 65% of American’s do not support the U.S. participation in the Iraqi war. With such little belief in the war, there would be a lot of resistance to reinstate the draft. Without a doubt, government officials would lose public interest if this passes.

            A “reverse draft” has already been put in place. I think that this is an extremely wrong thing to do. People that have already spent years serving in the military should not be forced by the government to serve more. They have already given back to their country, it’s just selfish of the country to ask even more of them.