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There's no way a draft will be called any time soon. Americans want clean, high-tech wars they can watch on TV. They want the "cheap" oil. (Not counting the billions of tax dollars spent on the military.) They want to tie plastic American flags to the aerials of their SUVs and shoot at Osama targets and put "United we Stand" bumper stickers on their pickups.
They do NOT want to take time off work (bad career move), or Johnny (or Janey) coming home in a box. The politically ambitious can always enlist.
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"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it compromises and develops the germ of every other. As the parent of armies, war encourages debts and taxes, the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended ... and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people ..." - James Madison (quote by Gore Vidal)
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