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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
For the most part I disagree. The peace movement hated conscription and saw every member of conscription as a victim. But once you were in uniform and in the war you became a hated enemy and a focus of protest.
The hippies didn't separate the volunteers from the drafted.
There is an element to volunteer soldiers that you are bang on about, the American Military has done a great job of portraying their soldiers as volunteer guardians.
However the Stop Loss movement made it almost seem like conscription again.
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People will be much more mobilized and passionate about a policy that affects them personally. I'm guessing a huge amount of the hatred stemmed from fear of getting drafted or facing the consequences of draft dodging. Every person that accepts conscription is one more person endangering the anti-war movement, thus endangering the anti-war protesters themselves.
And I agree that there's some nasty recruiting methods that almost act as conscription for the lower end of high school graduates.