re: Tell me, is my view on the draft really THAT crazy?

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So for some reason some friends members and I decided to have a little "debate" about the draft...when I gave my opinion everyone looked at me like I was joking or something. Just for reference my friends is pretty average politically, some more conservative and some more liberal but all pretty close to the center. For the sake of this argument let's assume that a draft has been deemed necessary for survival. I don't want to get into a debate about whether or not a draft should happen or not. This is all assuming a draft is in place. Basically I think that, if there were a draft, the selection should not be random. Instead it should follow a set of stages (in order of priority): 1) People living off unemployment/ the "government tit" as you all like to say 2) People with no high school diploma / working unskilled minimum wage jobs 3) People with no college degree 4) People with no children And for the record I think single women with no kids should be included. If they want to be equal to men in every single respect, then they have to be. So tell me is this really THAT ridiculous? Is random selection really the only way a draft could be reasonably implemented?

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That's how it worked during 'Nam, and it was the shittiest state of our armed forces (okay, Army) in US history.