If they are only lowering their draft age by 2 years, then those young people got a serious break. Yes, a draft is highly unpopular. I know by personal experience, having been drafted at the age of 19. It's a major life changer for the draftee. Everything you had going on or thought you did, suddenly means little as your life takes a major upheaval.

The nation's leaders have to make that decision, do they get more soldiers for this war or do they just let the rest die and give up? Is it important enough to fight for or is the alternative acceptable? Are they in favor of the nation or more in favor of their personal fortune as a law maker? In doing so, every family effected will be for the most part teed off.

Some of those soldiers will return home on leave, some will return home with parts missing and reliving the horrors of a war, some will come home in a box. That is after all the nature of war.