No, I understand that. I just wanted to raise the difficulty that comes along these lines.
This is something the world community is struggling with, trying to put conflicts on some kind of legal basis, and this conflict really doesn't seem to have one. Any justification used to go into Iraq has been pretty well eroded. American public opinion is very much against it.
I could see somebody saying, “We're going to sign up to defend our homeland. We're going to sign up to defend just interventions in the world.” But when all the rationale that one signs up for disappears, that leaves the individual with a very strong dilemma in terms of what they are able to do.
I guess I don't see that much difference between this and Vietnam.