Class warriors.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief article

Tim Cavanaugh, writing in the libertarian magazine Reason, recently set out to debunk the argument that a military draft was needed so that "it wasn't just the poor kids going to war."

He cites figures supplied by the Heritage Foundation that show only 5 percent of the new recruits in 2003 came from neighborhoods with average household incomes of $20,000 or less, and points out that the largest group, 18 percent, came from neighborhoods with average household incomes from $35,000-$40,000 to clinch his case.

Let us leave aside suspicions aroused by the fact that the source of the research is the conservative Heritage Foundation and by the fact that it is the average income of the...