Let's ABOLISH the Selective Service!

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19. This really seems to go in circles doesn't it?

Now you are saying just what I said Selective service registration has done nothing to prevent the last 5 Presidents from participating in or creating wars.

Selective service requires all men 18 and older to register. You can't have a deferment unless you register. So deferments aren't really the issue unless there is mobilization and conscription becomes real.

We have evidence conscription causes opposition to war. Conscription was enormously unpopular due to the ridiculously long and irrational anti-commie, fear of dominoes falling, Vietnam war.

REAL conscription results in opposition to pointless conflicts.

Registration as evidenced by decades of history does nothing to create widespread durable opposition to stupid conflicts.

On edit: The size of the American military and it's impact on the US budget is in large part a legacy of post WWII conscription. We created a large standing military filled it under coercive influence of conscription, and the American citizenry got accustomed to it's existence, cost to support, and use in interventions throughout the much of the northern hemisphere.