How about we just don’t fight stupid wars? There hasn’t been a real need for a draft in America since the civil war (in the sense that America was not plausibly threatened by the world wars, Korea, Vietnam, etc).

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aworks 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Americans during WWII thought it was a fight for national survival, starting with the shock of Pearl Harbor. Isolationishm turned to intervention in the "Good War." I won't defend any war after that...

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pfannkuchen 2 days ago | parent [-]

> Americans during WWII thought it was a fight for national survival

Right, they did. But in retrospect, was it actually?

If the US had stayed neutral from the beginning, do we think Japan would have bombed America's military base?

	▲	aworks a day ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting counter-factual. Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle suggests what would have happened if the US did lose the war. Remaining neutral would have been a different result, though.

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dingi 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Wars are part of nature. It is inevitable. So your proposition is based on wrong assumptions.

	▲	pfannkuchen a day ago \| parent [-]
		You have parsed “stupid wars” differently from what I meant. It’s not that war in general is stupid, it’s that the wars America has gotten involved in for a long time now have all been stupid.