During the Vietnam War, Vice President Dick Cheney finagled five draft deferments. “I had other priorities,” says the man who would send your boy to die in Baghdad. How nice. Thousands of other boys, the draftees whose names are etched on that granite wall in Washington, D.C., never got the chance to enjoy those “other priorities.” Uncle Sam showed up and explained its priority: dying face down in a rice paddy on the other side of the planet. If Cheney’s escape from service for “other priorities” seems unfair and unjust, it is. But the inequity is not beyond resolution with … Continue reading How To Stop the Wars: Conscript The Sons Of Politicians