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Originally Posted by KevinTheOmnivore
Pardon me for being crass, but you don't necessarily want the people to be overly involved. We have a civilian military, led by civilians, people to serve and protect the constitution and those civilians. Presidents, much like soldiers, often have to do unpleasnat and difficult things, such as sending someone's child to foreign soil to die. Regardless of the cause, that's a pretty tough thing to do, and it's perhaps a burden/responsibility that shouldn't be left to the masses.
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If you ask me, Kevin, the masses don't really have enough burdens and responsibilities, globally speaking. In case you haven't noticed, Americans on the whole are spoiled brats, sociopolitically. I just ran a quick search (and amittedly did not research the figure much) but only 51.3% of voting-age Americans actually exercised that right in 2004. Americans don't have enough to answer to in today's world and it would probably do our population a shitload of good to look itself and the rest of the world in the eye, look past their SUVs, neatly trimmed lawns, high-paying office jobs, or better yet, their slums, drugs, and grunt work, and grow the fuck up a bit.
Compulsory service would force people to realize that there's life out there beyond their closed-minded little world.
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Kevin, that article runs paralell to my argument.