Philosophical Question on Draft (lifted from reply to Van Haitsma)

Philosophical questions: does an all-volunteer military under structural conditions in the USA today lend itself to becoming what Reserve Commander Helmly says it is on the verge of becoming? The moral equivalent of a mercenary force? Has the USA military in other words become most simply a corporation in which those who make war for money hire soldiers who make money for war? As the people look down from coliseum seats waiting for their master of ceremonies Ann Coulter to plunge both thumbs down, we ask: Is the socialization of military service under these conditions a method for restoring to the spectacle some moral vocabulary that cannot be uttered by pure Fox News bloodlust, greed, and ignorance? Or will the draft simply enable more death with even less purpose?