[freedomdefender]

a draft [without loopholes, or with very few of them] can also bring in increased social cohesion.

Social cohesion is the goal of totalitarian states. Freedom is the goal of the United States.

[GSlob]

"Social cohesion is the goal of totalitarian states. Freedom is the goal of the United States."
Thinking first, replying later would do you a lot of good:
Any state, be it free, not so free, or totalitarian, needs a measure of social cohesion to exist. Without this cohesion what one gets is the tower of Babel [a multiculturalist dream, BTW]. So the question is, in what measure does a free country [especially a free country at war] need social cohesion, to what measure do we already possess such cohesion, is the present measure of cohesion sufficient or does it need strengthening?

[andrew2527]

Your posts on this thread have been right on.