"felton" wrote
......., but for me, 600 is too many if we didn't have a justifiable
reason to go. Not to mention the huge expenditure of our tax dollars.

The justification is that we eliminated a threat to Israel - period!

I wonder how the American sentiment would view this war and our
elected leadership if we still had a draft and it *might* affect all
the young folks, instead of the few.

I doubt there'd be much difference thanks to our vast weapon superiority.
There wouldn't have been near the protests had we over ran North Viet Nam in
a month, with few losses, then jailed the communists, installed a puppet
government and left - instead of spending years and 50,000 American lives
trying *unsuccessfully* to "pacify" the place.