Time for a Slave Army?

I spoke to a man tonight who was in the National Guard from 1960 to about 1970 and who related that he and his men had been accused of being "draft dodgers" because guardsmen were not mobilized for Vietnam. The gentleman and I agreed that it must have been politics that led the US government to draft slave soldiers for Vietnam instead of mobilizing the Guard and Reserve, but neither of us could speculate what the reasoning was.

I reckon that it would have been a major fraud on the Guardsmen and Reservists to send them to Vietnam, a conflict that had no bearing on the defense of the country. They have always been recruited heavily on the basis of national defense. The same could be said of regulars to a slightly lesser degree. Slave soldiers are under no illusions. They can be used for any purpose. So the government was just being faithful to the part timers and militiamen in the Vietnam War.

Lately, the government has broken faith with the militia and sent them off on adventures with no relation to national security on false pretenses when they ought to have had the decency to enslave subjects to fight in the Middle East. Not, of course, wealthier subjects.