It is an old joke/serious point going back to the 70's that the best thing for America is to re-instate the draft. My brother was a Navy pilot in the Med when Iraq invaded Kuwait. I tell you there are no set of people more committed to strict isolationalism and avoiding war than the familes of those actively serving in the military.

As long as you are just killing volunteers, both the politicians and the public can be lulled into thinking that war doesn't cost anything. If the American soldiers currently in Iraq were mostly draftees, they would be such an outcry as to what is going on that they would all be home next week. The one thing Bush couldn't get away with is to look in the the TV camera and tell the Moms and Dads of America that he is drafting their sons to die for Halliburton.