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"It's just not fair that the people that we ask to fight our wars are people who join the military because of economic conditions, because they have fewer options," says Representative Charles B. Rangel, whose African-American constituents bear a disproportionate burden of military service. While I oppose bringing back the draft, there is a fundamental issue of fairness involved when so many working-class Americans are putting their lives on the line while a lot of rich white men who have never spent a day in boot camp stand to make fortunes on the profits of war.