Warmongers Can Enlist

The warmongers can enlist. The Anti-Vietnam War movement was built by the threat of the draft. Middle class students could be drafted if they were not in school fulltime and upon graduation, if they did not go to school fulltime after graduation. When the draft ended in 1973, that was the end of most of the protests against the Vietnam War. The opposition remained among those who benefited least financially from the war and who had the least family wealth, as a general rule, with few exceptions. It was the workingclass who did most of the dying, as is true in all wars, and it was the workingclass who remain the strongest opposed to war. It is always the threat of facing the reality of being killed in a war that ends most of the babble of the warmongers and makes them strong peaceniks. This is not a case for the draft; this is a case for confronting the warmongers with reality. Tell them to enlist if they think dying for a cause is so wonderful. That argument always works.