Drafting Kids for War
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Drafting Kids for War
If you had the power, would you end this menace? Or do you find reasons with the government for drafting young kids for war?
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The main problem is letting a war happen. If I was in power, that's what I'd try to avoid.
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I think what has changed in our modern American culture is the viewpoint of who is a "kid," as you call it. Today we think of college-aged people as "kids" even though they are young adults. If I were in charge of a military organization, I would agree that the most able-bodied citizens should be drafted, trained, and stationed. This is not to say I think fighting battles and war is a good thing, but the solution is much more involved than considering whether young, able adults are in the kid category. There would be no age that people would agree with. If not people in their late teens and early twenties, then who? People who invested in college and started careers? People who now have wives and children?
In the Vietnam War era, the protests were not about the age of those drafted. They were about the rightness of fighting in Vietnam at all. I knew guys from military families who were not "anti-war". They were anti-Vietnam War.
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