The Draft

The Onion nails it.

There is an honest debate to be had about mandatory service, many countries have it and beyond just filling numbers, it can have positive long term benefits to American culture. Many argue it was the desegregation of the military in 1950s that led to popular support of the Civil Rights movement because many white men in the military actually were forced to get to know black men and being able to know and identify with someone makes it a hell of a lot harder to sit by while their Civil Rights are being violated.

But what's annoying about the idea of a draft is that politicians use it as a scare tactic to try to get people against the war.