I remember a video of a reporter asking a senator why his son didnt join up. 
Even though he supports the war. 

Yeah, but that was brief and more than 20 years ago. We've been waging war pretty much nonstop for more than 80 years and it's been unpopular almost the whole time.

Undisciplined

There were so many people who volunteered after 9/11. 


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That's not really done much anymore. It's also not the least expensive way to do it.

The costs of war are largely born by normal people, though, whereas the spoils go to the top. That's why the American government wages endless war, while the American people generally oppose it.