Until April 12, the biggest annual lottery will keep Thai men on edge: the military draft. So, unless you can flee across the border, let's recap on some of the foolproof ways to dodge the draft. The post-modern world is too dizzying for the pre-modern military system to cope with sometimes. In 1967 Muhammad Ali refused to report to the US Army as they were drafting young men to fight in Vietnam. If the Vietnam War was conceived in sin, the "war" we're fighting and recruiting 103,097 able-bodied men for is a figment of the imagination and hypnotism.

Source: Bangkok Post April 07, 2017 23:26 UTC