I think you're quite right, Henry. A re-instatement of the Draft would indeed result in a massive public protest movement that would end these ruinous wars. The USA government was clever to replace the Draft with a volunteer military. They can suck in the unemployed, the poor, and the foolish to fight their illegal wars and dodge the kind of public resistance that arises from a Draft at the same time.

There's also been a very big move toward privatizing the US military. Private companies like Blackwater now provide paramilitary forces to fight in and occupy and administer the invaded lands, and it all happens under the public and media radar. It's like a secret war, more or less, and it's paid for with public funds. It's the rise of Big Government through private enterprise...using the public purse to pay for it. Very clever. Very deceitful.