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To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

— Noam Chomsky

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.

— James Rado

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

— Jesse Ventura

The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.

— Muqtada al Sadr

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

— Tim O'Brien

One of the problems we currently have is there hasn't been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war because we have an all-volunteer army. I would think the return to the draft would be an intervention that would require discussion that might be more helpful in terms of our ability to limit war.

— Stanley Hauerwas

I have to do draft after draft... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.

— Donald Hall

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

— Noam Chomsky

I was part of the draft resistance movement in L.A. where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. I had a student classification and they said that anybody who'd taken part in these demonstrations would be reclassified and drafted. And that's when I went to Canada.

— Cheech Marin

✗Opposing Perspectives

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.

— Philip Roth

Writing the first draft is like hitting the beach on D Day. You don't stop to mourn the dead or comfort the wounded. You get off the beach because, if you don't, you'll die there.

— Matt Hughes