<p>It was a different time. Back then half the general population did not hate the nation they lived in, or the leadership more than the enemy.</p>
<p>You know damned well that a draft today would turn into a political football.</p>
<p>No thanks. We have enough useful idiots mucking up the war effort. No sense letting them on the inside to muck it up some more. I’d rather have gangland volunteers than conscripted hippies any day.</p>
<p>Now, if you want to argue that military service of some kind (directly under arms or at least in support) should be required for citizenship and the right to vote a la Starship Troopers (the BOOK), then I’m all ears.</p>