and he knows it, or he wouldn't have voted against the draft before he was for it.
I'm a firm believer in national service. I have long regretted not going through with plans I had to join the Navy. And I am an inveterate fan of Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers. But drafts are right out (and Heinlein agreed; service in Troopers was voluntary. The catch was, unless you served, and served honorably until discharge, you were denied the franchise. But there were no limits on volunteering -- if you wanted to serve, they had to find something for you to do, even if you were disabled or overaged. And they would do it.)
Heinlein said, "Those who refuse to support and defend a state have no claim to protection by that state." The corollary is, if you can't get enough volunteers to defend your society, perhaps your society isn't worth defending. Drafting someone else to do the dirty work isn't the way to defend yourself.
