You want to reinstate what?

At one of the GOP’s staged town hall meetings, one of the question-askers deplored the condition of the VA hospital in Albuquerque as a lead-up to her statement: “If we don’t re-inact the draft, I don’t think we’ll have anyone to chase them on to the gates of hell.”

McCain’s quick and simple reply: “I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said, and thank you”.

Huh? Is McCain advocating the draft now? Either he is, or he couldn’t comprehend the question and answered anyway, or he was giving an automatic response to a staged question that came off wrong. No way to know for sure, but at face value, he indeed agreed that we should re-instate the draft. Wow.

Further, is he really knowledgeable about the problems in the big VA hospital in his state, but has not acted to correct it? While that sounds like a ludicrous position for a veteran like McCain to take, consider his political position on the VA. McCain advocated cutting costs by rationing medical care by the VA. His reasoning is that the problem with the VA is that too many vets are going to the hospitals for injuries and ailments that are not directly caused by war.

The VA exists to provide medical care to veterans of the US military. Medical care it is part of what the US owes our former soldiers, because it is what the US government promises them. If we want to cut corners in our budget, caring for US veterans is NOT the place to start cutting. I’m not a vet, and even I know that.