Even If Your Linus Looks Like A Lobster Tail Without Its Shell

An all-volunteer Army can only serve as a check on unjustified war if standards are kept. At Slate - Dumb and Dumber: The U.S. Army lowers recruitment standards … again.

The war keeps more good soldiers from enlisting. The lack of good candidates compels the Army to recruit more bad candidates. The swelling ranks of ill-suited soldiers make it harder to fight these kinds of wars effectively...

So, we're facing two choices. Either we change the way we recruit soldiers... or we change the way we conduct foreign policy—that is, we engage more actively in diplomacy or, if war is unavoidable, we form genuine coalitions to help fight it. Otherwise, unless our most dire and direct interests are at stake, we should forget about fighting at all.