Typical of progressives throughout the 20th century, Barack Obama sees the injustice in the draft not in the fact that it conscripts the labor of young people against their will but that it doesn’t deny human rights equally. Obama wants to extend draft registration and a draft, should his administration decide to bring it back, to woman. As I noted during the 2004 election, over the last 100 years the draft has been the tool of the left in general and the Democrat party in particular. As I noted, even during the 60s the left only opposed the draft because they opposed the war, not because they opposed involuntary servitude on principle.