Why do you say we should have never been in Vietnam? Should we leave the S. Koreans to the same fate we left the Vietnamese? The Taiwanese? The Iraqis?
Because of the technology used in a lot of the services now, it would take too much time and effort to train some draftee—who didn’t want to be there and would fight every step of the way.
Bad idea.
The only time a draft would be useful is if we were engaged in a land battle in Asia. And what idiot would do that.
The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a complete fabrication. Why should we have been there? The only thing accomplished was obscene profits for the military industrial complex, and 58,000 killed. The end result was the same as if we had never been there.