James Baker Backs Reinstating the Draft  The former secretary of
state says it's unpopular but it would raise the stakes.   By
Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers  Rep. Charlie Rangel,
Congress's lone champion of reinstating the military draft, can
count on another Korean War-era vet for support: Republican
James Baker, a soldier in the Reagan and Bush administrations.
Baker, secretary of state during the first Gulf War, visited a
private girls' school in Virginia, where he was asked how to
attract kids into some kind of service that gives them a stake
in the country's future. "This is a very unpopular thing that I
am about to say," he warned. "But one thing that makes it harder
to go to war is to have a draft, because when you have a draft,
then everybody's got a stake in it, and the costs of war are
brought home much more vividly and vigorously to the American
people. I think national service is a wonderful idea." But
unlikely, he conceded: "You get killed if you support a draft,
politically, but it sure would