Conscription = Slavery ?

[HarleyDog]

(12-04-2016, 12:11 PM)xxlt Wrote: But what you get is always a Vietnam. In a "just" war you don't need to conscript. Look at the old photos from 1941 forward of guys standing in line to volunteer. Even conscientious objectors volunteered for non-combat roles.

Not necessarily. Vietnam was arguably an interest and not a war, specially not our war. I am speaking in terms of a WW and the need for a country to self-sustain its ability to exist under it's own rule. We will inevitably face this one day and I hope a draft is not needed, but is there in case. We have sheltered our younger generations from these possibilities. They cannot fathom how quickly things can change and how the skies can change quickly from sunshine to soot and smoke. If our youth are forced to fight a WW, our nation, as we know it, will die! When it does, then they will fully understand the difference between conscription & slavery.