>> ^rougy:
At this point in time, mandatory service equals compulsory brainwashing.


Perhaps I would agree if we were talking about mandatory military service, which is clearly not what has been proposed. And even on that point, the experience with the draft during Vietnam actually shows the opposite, rather than becoming brainwashed, both those inside and outside of the military establishment resisted the principles being put forth.

>> ^NordlichReiter:
aaronfr you forgot several other countries. But I think we know who they are.


Sweden had a mandatory military service for people aged 18-25 until just recently. Why'd they stop? Because they haven't been at war in almost 200 years and the military is nothing but a money hole.

That some totalitarian states have mandatory military service doesn't automatically make it a bad system, as I'm sure you know. There are up- and downsides to it of course, but it's nothing like the annoying, early 20-something brat in this video tries to make it out to be with his nasal whining.

>> ^lantern53:
Aren't RE and BO from the same chicago political machine?
they think alike.


that is so psychologically ignorant, it's ridiculous.