The right way to go to war.
It's not like you need to be reminded to read TBogg on a regular basis, but he has a nifty piece here, demolishing the Virgin Ben's argument about chickenhawkery, which reminded me of something I read some time back, in which was proposed a recipe for deciding when a country should go to war.
First, the national referendum, in which only those who are eligible for military service would vote. A simple majority would decide and, if that majority voted for war, all "Yes" votes would represent a binding agreement to enlist.
And wouldn't that solve a whole bunch of enlistment problems?
That's a neat idea. It reverses the notion that Heinlen put forward in Starship Troopers that you had to have served in the military for the right to vote.
ReplyDeleteI bet it would help with voter turnout too.