“Men who won’t serve without a draft, are men who don’t want to serve their nation in uniform”
That’s right; I don’t. I assume I would want to in the case of genuine national security, e.g. if we were invaded. But that’s not been the case since 1812 at least.
“I suspicioned some form of deep guilt in them”
If I am guilty that’s some armchair psychoanalysis on your part. But I don’t think so.
If I can do a bit of my own anaylsis, from your association of manhood with service and your contempt for Romney’s family tradition of non-service I suspect you come from a military family. Just know that not all American families are like that. For instance my father was drafted into the army during Vietnam, though he didn’t see combat. I distinctly remember him telling me that’s not something he ever wanted for his sons, though he is no lib and doesn’t badmouth the military in general.
“If I were you I would go immediately to a recruiter to see about the Guard or reserves, or active duty if you can afford the career interruption.”
See, this is what I mean by us not being Sparta or Prussia. Why this notion that everyone who can should serve? Is it that I’m an ingrate, and that if I’m willing to live under the unbrella of freedom I should help carry the handle myself? Well, there’s an awful lot of us who thinks it’s muggy under the umbrella, and we wouldn’t have to worry about getting wet if we didn’t rush out of the warmth into the rainstorm for no good reason.
Read your posts on this thread, it is defending his refusal to serve that you are most obsessed with and I don’t think it is really about him, look at your flurry of initial posts defending not serving, defending it means something to you, this thread shows that.