If you think that your country is involved in an unjust war, you should refuse to help in that war. Insofar as you can, you should try to change things so that it stops doing it.

Some people chose to resist openly, and went to jail for refusing to be drafted, or refusin to obey orders. Some people went to jail for anti-war activism. Some deserted from the army. Some went underground. Some left the country.

Yes and there were some who were motivated not so much by a belief that the war was wrong, but by a wish not to be killed. And some of them found a way to ridde out the war wiothout being drafted, and are now riding high in politics - Republicans as well as Democrats.

But suggesting that people who chose to leave their country and their place in society because of what they believed in, because they thought their country was wrong, are all cowards to be sneered at is rubbish. It's no better than saying that people who went into the army were all bloodthirsty babykillers - and I don't know anyone who has ever said that.