I'd like to start adding some pure opinion to the blog so I was reading Ron Paul's "Revolution", a book which I have a number of disagreements with, but that I feel is exceedingly well supported and thought out. While reading a section regarding foreign policy, Paul notes that he believes we are approaching the necessity of a draft (one of the premises I disagree with). He argues persuasively that the idea of a draft, or a national service such as the requirement in some nations that a citizen must serve in the military, is unconstitutional. I could not agree more. And here is the principle which I believe this stems from :
Our government and our society were founded on the basis of individual liberty and so we must first proceed in each idea by asking first what gives the most freedom. We are, despite protests to the contrary, a Judeo-Christian founded society and God himself does not insist that we serve or even believe, so by what right may men do what God may not? If we are a just nation, men and women will stand and defend the ideals of the nation without compulsion. If they will not, then we do not deserve to stand.
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