[Simon Green]

I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!

----Robert A. Heinlein

[Manuel OKelley]

I was about to post something with the same sentiment...thanks for putting it more eloquently

[Alberta's Child]

Very good point.

I'd make the case that a country that aborts 60 million of its own progeny and then wonders why it can't find sufficient military recruits has fundamentally lost its collective minds.