4th March 2004, 1:13 PM
Yes because of course you know how many of them would have gone. 
But for WW2 in the military situation we were just lucky that it started with something like Pearl Harbor. Until then the antiwar, isolationist movement was VERY strong and Roosevelt, who was doing all he could to help the Allies, could only send some supplies to England... without Pearl Harbor, and then Hitler's idiotic declaration of war against us (I am far from convinced that had he not declared war on us we would have anyway, at least not until we defeated Japan first...), I'm sure that the draft would have caused a huge amount of anger.
But for WW2 in the military situation we were just lucky that it started with something like Pearl Harbor. Until then the antiwar, isolationist movement was VERY strong and Roosevelt, who was doing all he could to help the Allies, could only send some supplies to England... without Pearl Harbor, and then Hitler's idiotic declaration of war against us (I am far from convinced that had he not declared war on us we would have anyway, at least not until we defeated Japan first...), I'm sure that the draft would have caused a huge amount of anger.
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