Legal Drinking Age

This is always a hot topic, and it was a bit this morning on CNN when a state rep from Vermont said he approved of the lowering of the legal drinking age from 21 to 18.

While I'm not a big fan of alcohol in general, that's not really the point here. When I was in high school, we fought for the reduction in the voting age because it didn't seem fair that young men could be called to war by the government three years before they were allowed to vote. The draft was still going on even if the War in Vietnam was largely over.

Likewise, it doesn't seem fair that the Army will happily take to kill and be killed these kids (and God, yes, they're kids) at 17 or 18 but they can't drink until 21. My take on it, however, would be to R-A-I-S-E the age at which they can enter the military rather than reduce the age at which you can legally get shit-faced.