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I'm not an American so I (obviously) wouldn't answer the call for a US draft ...

In general, I'm against the draft because I don't think that forcing people to fight a war they don't believe in is an effective way to build an Army.

With that said, a draft can become very important because regardless of how worthy the cause is there will be very powerful people who will try to prevent you from going to war. An example of this is the "Greatest Canadian" Tommy Douglas argued that Nazi German wasn't a threat until it was (far) too late ...