Too bad you Know so much...
Backread some of the discussion that have occurred around this subject matter with Rambone in the past couple of years then.
Just be glad that my snide comments are PG-13 filtered...
Yet it is mandatory that people register with the "Selective Service" program just in case the government changes its mind, right? Sign up within 30 days of your 18th birthday or face 5 years in prison. Man, there's a true sign of a voluntary military if I ever saw one.
Until the Selective Service Act is repealed, forceful military draft is just a pen-stroke away from being pushed on any of us. If our leaders could justify conscription to participate in the Vietnamese civil war, they would just as easily justify it for invading Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria...
I think that the history of forced service to the State in this country is good enough reason for all of us to analyze the military's forceful, collectivist practices. Some of us have longer memories than others regarding our "voluntary" military.
Not at the moment, it isn't. But, I am reminded of the famous words from the Clinton administration..."Stroke of the pen, law of the land".
