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

[John D. Giorgis]

At 08:29 PM 6/10/01 -0700 Doug Pensinger 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 in 1940?
>> 
>
>You would have had a hard time convincing U.S. Americans that it was.

I didn't ask Americans, I asked you.

JDG
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