In an all-volunteer military, you've chosen to abdicate control over your person. You become a tool (in a neutral sense) of the State, and politicians who may not have the wisdom to employ their tools in intelligent ways.

Unless you can somehow conditionalize your military service and pick and choose which uses you are and aren't willing to be put to, this whole "conscientious objector" thing is a complete crock.

The military isn't the place to start having convictions. Armies don't function very well if the soldiers get to cherry-pick what they want to do.

Granted, I am not a military person. But, when you sign up, you sign up. No backsies. I am of the assumption that everyone in the military WANTED to be there, and has chosen to put his own beliefs aside, in favor of the military's.

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