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To me, this makes perfect sense. I can tell you now, I love and respect my country just as much as anyone here, and I appreciate those who chose to serve the same, but just speaking for me, since for so long I have had ambitions of starting the career path that I have set out for myself, I would be an unmotivated soldier. I don't know if being forced into service would create a feeling of resentment towards my government, but it would make me feel as if all that I have been working toward would have been for naught.

What an elitist attitude! Yep, you're so *special* because you go to college and have dreams, so it's best to leave the dirty work to those without your putative brains and dreams.

You're not the only one who has hopes and dreams -- but the difference is that those who serve have a sense of duty and patriotism that you just don't even begin to comprehend. Others who don't ask for anything in return for defending the freedoms that effete snobs like you take for granted.

With that attitude, you're in for a major bitch-slapping from reality once you graduate.

Look, there's no need to get hostile. I'm not trying to be elitist or anything of the sort. Let me tell you something...I work here at my college part time, I work at a resturant part time, and I have an ass-load of student loans that I have taken out...all to pay for my education. I have invested as much as I possibly can into finishing. No one from my family has ever gone to, or let alone graduated from college and by being forced into this, it would put an end to those goals.

I'm just coming out with my honest opinion on the matter. If you don't like it, too bad. I would be willing to bet that a good deal of these people would change their tune when and if this actually came to fruition.

"you're in for a major bitch-slapping"

Hehehehehe...you could have stopped here and still been right.

And the hits keep on comin'. YYYEEEEHHHHAAAA!!!! Here use this baseball bat!!!