[theapportioner]

All valid objections, certainly. No doubt Rumsfeld et al. would rather have a bunch of willing, "professional" soldiers.

But do you think that an all-volunteer army makes, for most people, an abstraction out of war? Iraq becomes this "other" thing, distant from our lives, when it should be everybody's concern.

I'm just wondering what impact the elimination of the draft has had on civic responsibility in the States.