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>>>>>> And in honouring your veterans you honour the war too. They have done nothing for your or your country or this world. Nothing of honour. They simply where bullying a third world country.
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>>>>>You have a point, but it's a bit more complex.
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>>>>>Iraq and Afghanistan were invaded by an all-volunteer force. Those people asked to be there.
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>>>>When any other country sends all-volunteers, they're called mercenaries.
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>>>...and a lot of these "volunteers" are poor who are doing it for the paycheck, not because they feel a duty to the country. --- oh yeah what you said -- same thing.
>>>The other problem with volunteers vs everyone being in service for a little while is that we are probably quicker to go to war. If everyone has to serve then everyone has skin-in-the-game -- some politicians will be less likely to vote for a war when members of their own family are in the Army vs a bunch of poor people that don't give a crap about.
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>>I've heard the drafting process to Vietnam was also selective?
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>It is all somewhat complicated -- I think being in college wasn't a free-pass anymore, but some graduate or undergrad studies got you out of the draft -- and of course rich people found a way out of it a lot. Someone older and/or more informed on the subject should comment as I don't know as much about the subject as I should.

I spend my early childhood gathering money (mandatory task) to pay for the bullets against GI's (aka Help for Vietnam), so don't ask me. Different world.