They didn't go back in the '60's, and they (and theirs) wouldn't go now now. If there is any dilemma for them, it is that the draft makes it politically untenable to wage these kinds of wars.
hagel just said it would stratify the effort to all classes instead of just lower and middle class folks dying. Just like bush was drafted and sent to vietnam as a rich privelegd kid in a fair draft that...oh wait.
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