Right! That's exactly why you DON'T ever want to have a draft. When the war is justifiable, you will get all the soldiers you need, and Americans have an excellent record in this regard. When it's not, you won't. And the citizens can decide this for themselves.

I'm not convinced that a draft was ever essential, even during WWII. And it would have been interesting to see how the Vietnam war would have been undertaken with a volunteer army. If it could have been at all.

That, and if I have somebody fighting at my back, I would really like it to be somebody who wanted to be there.

It was amusing how the Vietnam protests vanished like an ice cube on a griddle the minute the draft was ended. Nixon probably wished some President had thought of it years sooner.