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tritium, i agree with your viewpoint on women being drafted. certainly they should be required to sign up for a similar service requirement that would keep them out of physical combat roles.
so few people express compassion for reservists on the grounds that if they didn't want to go to war... then they shouldn't have joined. i would agree if they were complaining about going to war at all, but that isn't the case. the complaint often lies with the government changing their commmitment requirements in the middle of their service contracts and/or unfairly presenting the criteria for their deployment.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
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