• mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You missed the “for circumstances like this” part. There were certainly other uses of the draft for other circumstances that are looked at poorly.

    WWI and WWII didn’t have a direct US invasion, and we’re also looked at positively, but is out of the scope of the discussion.