What should National Service be about?

Certainly not about a 3 month stint in the jungle by teenagers who still eventually fall back to their racial castes. National Service is all about bright Malaysians coming back from abroad to serve their country instead of switching their allegiance to a foreign country and contributing to the coffers of the "so called - first world"

However, the real challenge is whether the current policies in Malaysia are enough to bring back this talent to help us develop into a first world nation? Can we do this? Not with fundamentalists and protectionist measures. Malaysia has to grow up - that's just the point.

Oh think not of what the country can do for you but what you can do for the country? But in a nutshell - is this just idealism?