> I'm sorry that your country condoned slavery. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water here. Entirely professional armed forces risk filling up with

> I'm sorry that your country condoned slavery. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water here. Entirely professional armed forces risk filling up with people who actually want to go to war and shoot people. Conscription is a moderating force. You want a more representative selection. Americans probably wouldn’t vote for so many disastrous foreign interventions if they would have to personally fly over and do it themselves.