So a president could draft the entire population into the military, and he would still be doing his duty.
There is no touché.
You are pitching them in from far left field there.
The military has been shrinking, shrinking, shrinking in real terms our military is a third smaller than it was in the late eightys, a lot of the military equipment we are useing is that old.
That is in purportion to population too, the military is shrinking.
Most of all the purportion of the government devoted to the military is shrinking , because most of the government is growing while the military shrinks.
Also , a lot of our military expenditure is on hospitals and retirements , needfull yes , teeth in our bite no.
So is a president doing his duty , if he withers the military?
Of course the shrink is not all Democratic and not all bad.
Remember Reagan and the "peace dividend" ?
Less need for resisting other superpower ment we could put a few wepons down , and we did .
I think we ought to know when to stop the shrink, any time now.