But the idea of telling the boy next door that he has any sort of a patriotic duty to go into harms way over some damned stupid geopolitical game which doesn't even rate a declaration of war is heinous; they got away with it one final time in Korea and then it blew up in their faces in the late 60s with Nam, which is why we now have an all-volunteer military. Necessary is some sort of a constitutional amendment or law stating a minimal set of circumstances under which draftees could ever be used in combat and a bare minimum should be a full declaration of war and a full commitment to destroy some adversary. Minus that, you've got no business using draftees in combat.
The Cold War was what you think WWII was.
This guy was a coward for not fighting the draft in America, and facing any consequences from that battle, he was not patriotic and he was not a brave man, he was afraid.
Why not? About 70% of our WWII war dead were draftees. WWI and Korea, were major draft wars.
Today we are forced to use single moms and grandmothers, in place of young warrior men.
75 % of those who fought in Vietnam were volunteers, not draftees. I agree that any war we fight should be declared and fought to win. I am not, however, a Milton Friedman in my view of the draft.
” Minus that, you’ve got no business using draftees in combat.”
Charlie Rangel (D-NYC) keeps trying, over and over, to reinstate the draft.
I served in the Pacific in WWII and my brother was killed in the battle for Okinawa. Like so many who fought and died in WWII we did it to pay homage for goodness and opportunity in a great Nation established by some great free people. I reject your attitude about service in WWII. I do get a bit of your argument since that war because I do believe our latest ‘wars’ have been for other things dearer to presidents than the survival of the USA as intended by the Founders.