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The Editorial Board / Chicago Tribune (TNS)


Times Opinion: Really? The return of military conscription is an ‘option to keep on the table’?

When Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Sunday whether the war in Iran might require ground troops or even a military draft, Leavitt responded in general terms that neither possibility was "part of the current plan right now," but that the president "wisely keeps his options on the table."

Photo by AFP/Getty Images/TNS / Representative Alexander Pirnie (Rep., NY) reaches into the bowl to draw the first date in the draft lottery held at Selective Service Headquarters for the war in Vietnam, Washington, D.C., Dec. 2, 1969.  Looking on (from left): Col. W.P. Averill, General Lewis Hershey, and Col. Daniel Omer.