There is a big difference here between doing your civic duty and fighting in a war you do not agree with.  With the "war president" in office right now, it doent make me feel too knowing my name is on the list if they were to reinstate the draft.  If the war we are currently engaged in was for a just cause, or even the lies and propaganda that we were told to get us involved, you would a large number of people stepping up to serve their country.  young men and women serving in the military are willing to give their lives for the american public.  the least we can do for them is make a promise that their sacrifice will not be done so in vein, and that they will not be put in the line of fire unless absolutely necessary.  When we engage in a war going against the consent of the United Nations and roughly have of our own population, you cannot stand there and tell me that we took every possible measure to prevent outbreak of war.  Democracy is founded on the belief that we should become free thinking bodies and come to our own decisions about policy issues.  Many of the political philosophers that the american ideology and even our constitution was founded upon, spent their lives in jail or were put to death for speaking out against the policy issues of their states.  do not ridicule another for not supporting the war that goes against his own beliefs.  if our country makes a policy decision that we do not agree with, the our "civic duty" becomes fighting for what is right, trying to persuade public opinion, and not sitting back to let other make our decisions for us.  that is the most un-American thing we could do and goes against everything we have fought for as a nation.