You'd be surprised at just what that "Chickenhawk List" looks like if you researched it -- it's a who is who of most Neocon America, including Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, etc. Their wars are good enough for killing your kids, but not for them or theirs.
My husband is a decorated Vietnam AF Vet who enlisted to go to Vietnam. A close family member, same age, was college deferred out for most of Vietnam but not quite all of it, so eventually he was asked to report -- he deliberately aggravating a minor skin condition on his right hand with Clorox for a week so that it showed he "couldn't hold a gun" and got declared 4F.
Now guess which one of these two is the Neocon and guess which one is more careful about reasons for us going to war? Guess which one had a son who went into the military, and which one in spite of arguing for us going into Iraq, sniffed at the very idea that his 24 yr son should enlist?
I know what the cost of war looks like, I live with it everyday. There are good reasons to go to war, in defense of home and country. But those reasons should not include just becoming a pawn on some arrogant policy geeks chessboard - -especially one who has no respect for you, your life or your country --only their egos and their globalist financiers plan for them.
There was actually one element to having a military draft that made sense: When people were forced to send their own sons to war, they thought twice about the value and the costs of that war. Today, all they have to do is slap up an "I Support the Troops" post on their Facebook page and they think that they are a real "Patriot"! Personally, it turns my stomach.
Son in the military, support the military, supported the necessary invasion of Iraq and getting rid of Saddam.
Opposed the hippie peaceniks during Viet Nam, just as I oppose the Paul punk peaceniks now. Same breed. Leftist cowards.
Thank your husband for his service, chip on your shoulder and irrelevant personal Clorox anecdote notwithstanding......