THanks for the post. Folks ask why no big anti-war movement today?
One answer may be that the KGB is no longer around to fund such things....
No KGB ... also, no draft. You still get the odd, occasional nutburger pretentiously refusing to deploy, but everybody knows that nobody is wearing an American uniform, who did not volunteer. The all-volunteer military has denied the leftist domestic enemy one of its favourite points of protest. One cannot dodge the draft when there is no draft.
There is no big antiwar movement because there is no draft. When Nixon ended the draft, the antiwar movement went away. Charlie Rangel knows this and this is why he keeps agitating to re-institute the draft. He wants to gallop backward to the old chaos of the "New Left."
Good point.