Nick Long
Dr. Marin
10/27/2014
English 1301

Discussion Questions
“A NEW MORAL COMPACT” by DAVID BARNO 1. That the war has dragged on for so long, and he believes it is directly related to not having a draft. 2. Right when he starts talking about the world of 2012 versus 1969, starts talking about the numbers of troops and length of tours. 3. Right when he says, “For we Americans as a people, that’s just wrong.” And the paragraphs following. 4. He states lengths of deployments, numbers of soldiers, and also talks about his 2 sons being in the war. 5. He starts explaining things about the past, and then contrasts the past and present and explains the differences, then tries to appeal to the audiences morals, and finally explains how having a lottery would make America as a whole be more involved and care more about the war. 6. That americans don’t care as much about wars as they used to, and that the wars wouldn’t drag on as long if there was a draft and more families were involved. 7. A good amount, he does give a lot of numbers and other logic, but in the end he is mostly appealing to pathos. 8. It would matter a lot, because he is giving quite a very controversial argument and it needs to be coming from a credible person. 9. He shows how he understands the draft and the feeling of being a soldiers parent by explaining his fathers military background and talking about his 2 children’s military experience. 10. He uses quite a bit of pathos, but it’s mainly all at the end of his argument. 11. “In the Vietnam Era”, “In today’s military”, “In contrast to” 12. He uses the word combat over and over throughout his argument to emphasize the issue at hand as much as possible. 13. “If you were unfortunate enough to be drafted, you at least knew that the nation drew the line at one year of combat” is an example