also, a lot of soldiers will follow any orders they're given. More than a quarter of US military personnel in Iraq aren't American at all, they're foreigners who will be fast tracked for citizenship when (if) they finish their service.
If they were drafting US kids there'd be big demobnstrations ike with Vietnam. but keep it to volunteers - especially foreign ones - and nobody's going to stand up against it with Vietnam-era fury and resilience.
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