End the All-Volunteer Force

[AmericanPride]

There is no doubt in my mind that if we were taking 1,000 killed and injured a week in Afghanistan and Iraq there would be a hell of a lot more people screaming for us to come home.

That's Ricks' point.

How would you what's better - did you serve in a conscripted army? And the rates - higher than Vietnam, after Vietnam, after Korea, WWII - how do you know this?

How does he know he never served.

Draft riots were common in the Civil War and many a well to do man paid others to fight in his place.

How would you know if you didn't serve during the Civil War (or did you?)?

I agree with the comment about unaccountable policy elites, but many a volunteer soldier has questioned the policies.

To what effect?