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So Canada provided a refuge for American draft dodgers during the Vietnam War. Much like Northern states once provided a refuge for slaves. Conscription and slavery: the difference is...?

If you can't tell the difference between doing you patriotic duty for your country in the time of war and slavery; perhaps your parents and church failed in teaching you.

Perhaps you never cared, but fleeing to Canada to avoid the war in Vietnam will always be considered a selfish act.

Someone else (perhaps a poor black man with a family history of slavery) had to go to war in your place.

Think about that for a minute while you burn a flag.

If you can't tell the difference between doing you patriotic duty for your country in the time of war and slavery; perhaps your parents and church failed in teaching you.

And if you can't tell the difference between defending your country from an invasion (against the British in 1814, for example) and a quixotic foreign adventure launched by a mad emperor because of some harebrained "domino theory", condolences!

What if Clinton's foreign policy bumblings necessitated a draft? Would it be a "patriotic duty" to give your life for that modern-day Caligula? How were JFK/LBJ any different? My parents taught me that disobedience to tyrants is the will of God; my church taught me that thou shalt not kill. When were these updated?

Someone else (perhaps a poor black man with a family history of slavery) had to go to war in your place.

You might want to dust off your crystal ball: I was born in the 60s. Does that preclude me from having strong opinions on the draft?

Think about that for a minute while you burn a flag.

Watch yourself, NEWBIE.

"...Canada provided a refuge for American draft dodgers during the Vietnam War."

If the Canadians are serious about forming two governments and two counties, there might be a civil war in Canada. I would welcome Canadian's to America if they where Escaping from war. Consider it returning the favor. Send the women and children first.