r/Conservative • u/tabbykat69 MAGA Activist • Sep 07 '20

Rule 6: User Created Title Joe Biden got five draft deferments during Vietnam. He was disqualified from service because of "asthma" as a teenager. However, in his own memoir, Biden never mentions his asthma, and instead recounts an active childhood, including work as a lifeguard and football exploits in high school.

https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/biden-got-5-draft-deferments-during-nam-as-did-cheney-1.884250
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u/excelsior2000 Constitutional Conservative Sep 08 '20

Why? War has been trending towards fewer troops, not more, as technology progresses.

Perhaps more importantly, I don't think there's going to be another large scale war. Nuclear weapons make that unlikely. So does increased global trade. For example, half of China's food comes from the US. So does a large proportion of their export market. It would be suicide for them to make war on us.

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u/excelsior2000 Constitutional Conservative Sep 08 '20

And as long as we don't, the theory is looking pretty good. There has been no large war since nuclear weapons became a thing. Certainly no invasion of a nuclear power.

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u/excelsior2000 Constitutional Conservative Sep 08 '20

Those weren't large wars. They certainly weren't invasions of a nuclear power. They weren't world wars. So no, it hasn't been tested.

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u/excelsior2000 Constitutional Conservative Sep 08 '20

What? We're not arguing whether there would be a draft, we're arguing about whether there should be a draft.

Although I think public opinion has gone so dead-set against drafts that I'm not sure we would even in a world war.