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Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
I'm glad I'm 33 and thus too old to be drafted. Were I not, you bet your a$$ I'd be avoiding it. I don't give a rat's a$$ whether someone finds that unpatriotic or not - I'm not about to end up dead or a parapelegic so that dubya's cronies can buy bigger yachts and more legions of soccer moms can toodle around in 7,000 pound SUVs. This war is flat-out stupid and I'll never support it. I certainly wouldn't support it with my mortal life and I'd think nothing less of anyone else that didn't either!
This isn't a war about America or national security or defending our homeland - it's about money and oil and ensuring that the rich stay richer than you and that the powerful stay more powerful than you. S-T-U-P-I-D. If you're in such a hurry to prove your patriotism or manhood or whatever by throwing away your life in support of such idiocy, I'll lend you my 9mm.
FWIW, I DID look at enlisting right after 9/11, but was too old by a few months. I'm glad I didn't in wake of the absolutely intellectually vacuous course this country's foreign policy has been on since. I'd certainly fight a war against Al Qaeda and other bona-fide "terrorists" but I'm sure as hell not going to fight one against Iraqi civilians or a sovereign regime (undesirable though it may be) that does nothing wrong other than DARING to not hand over their oil to BushCo. Oh the horror!
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This is why we have a volunteer defense force. When the going gets tough and the cause is just more often than not our men and women show up to serve. On the other hand - if they don't agree to the cause - should they be forced to fight? This isn't a question of who should serve but who should be forced to serve.
I remember reading in WWII that even Quakers enlisted and though they still wouldn't fight many made excellent medics and other non combat personnel.