Counterexamples

I am pretty sure that Bob Herbert has written this column before, and he's certainly not the first to propose that our profligate war-making is somehow the product of the so-called all-volunteer military, that if only the yutes-of-privilege were likewise called to duty, we would hesitate to commit such blood and treasure. And of course, he is correct. Were it not for the draft and the fair share borne by the children of our élite, our conflict in Vietnam might have dragged on for nearly two decades, costing tens of thousands of of American lives, millions of southeast Asian lives, and billions upon billions of wasted dollars.