Re: Conscription Re: They gave their lives....

[Doug Pensinger]

"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
> 
> At 07:30 AM 6/10/01 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote:
> >Personally, I think that conscription for a Viet Nam like war, where the
> >security of the country is not directly threatened, is not justified.  I
> don't
> >think that some sort of national service (military or no) is such a bad idea.
> 
> Would conscription have been justified to fight Germany in WWII?

Unless you don't consider Pear Harbor a direct threat?

> 
> Would conscription have been justified in 1940?
> 

You would have had a hard time convincing U.S. Americans that it was.

Doug