Semester#8 essay prompt#12: In many countries, citizens are required to serve in the military for a year or more. Do you believe the United States should institute a similar practice? Why or why not? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
I do not think the United States should institute a practice where they make their citizens join the military for one year or more. I don’t think we should institute that practice because we have a steady supply of volunteers joining the military now enough as it is. And I feel that the military lies to the public to make us join the military whenever a war comes between us and another country. I feel they lie to us about the purpose for which we are going to wars because they feel if they tell us the truth about it that most Americans won’t join the war effort. And they’ll mostly be against it.
I feel that if you start to make and force people to join the military that the there would be a major problem between the American people and the government if we ever found out the real purpose of the war if it wasn’t what they initially told us. For example, if we were told that we were going to war to safe people from genocide. But the real reason was for oil or some other selfish reason that I would make people protest the military on an unimaginable scale.
People would start to desert the military and other stuff. I feel we would do that because as Americans if we are going to war or anything on that scale that for us to really get into it and join the military to protect our country. That we always need to know the truth about the reason we are going in the first place. If the reason is good enough then you will have no issue in recruiting new soldiers for the war effort. And if the reason sounds fishy to people then you will just have to work with the soldiers that you already have in the military.
A big example of why some people wouldn’t join the military now is because of the Iraq and Afghanistan War. I say that because the government said that we were going to war to find and destroy there nuclear weapons. But after we found out they didn’t have nuclear weapons and that our soldiers are still out there fighting a no purpose having war that is only for ones selfish reason. That selfish reason is because we are only there for the one reason the government didn’t want to tell us. That reason was only for oil that’s the main and only reason that we are still and was ever sent there in the first place at all.
Overall I feel that the military shouldn’t have to enforce there citizens to join the military for a year or more. I know me personally wouldn’t go if they did that. I would only go if they tried to invade America itself or if the reason for war was the truth and good enough for me to risk my life for this country.
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