I can't believe that a modern nation has mandatory conscription. It's truly backward. What's with military prep school?<p>Military/wars are ultimately all political, so conscription places obedience to the political leaders right in the middle of adolescence. Very unfortunate.
What a waste - why destroy something promising just to get another warm body for another useless conflict over a country so tiny most Americans walk longer to take a piss and which may or may not have once played a role as the place where some people who worshiped a god in their way slept until they were kicked away by some other people who worshiped <i>the same God</i> in a slightly different manner? Why not at least let the delusional people fight it out amongst themself.<p>And yes, it would have killed me to make the sentence shorter.