The thing I can’t get over is how sort of non-specific and unideological it is. Someone somewhere is dangerous and/or not as good as us therefor we need to be

The thing I can’t get over is how sort of non-specific and unideological it is. Someone somewhere is dangerous and/or not as good as us therefor we need to be prepared to kill millions of people. This seems exemplified in practice by going into Iran to support the civilian resistance than transitioning to, we’re going to kill them all and turn Iran into a sheet of glass. I don’t have a problem with the idea of national service (though maybe we should start with domestic service). But this ideology that’s like, we’re libertarian billionaires who want to rule the USA, but you should sign up to die for your country? Maybe in a Democracy.