I agree with you, hence my enthusiasm for conscription. The Romney kids will serve, as will the Sununu’s and Burr’s.
I understand the sentiment, but once you have conscription your foreign forays are examined much more closely. That is why European troops were so seldom used for decades; their attempts to hold onto their colonies with conscripted troops left a bad taste in the mouths of their citizens, and they now demand a lot more accountability for them.
If we had a draft, the invasion of Iraq would never have happened (and it probably shouldn’t have).