Wildly Inconsequential Political Speculation

I wrote the below post the other day, and didn't post it, because it makes me nervous writing about the motivations of people I don't know and haven't studied enough to even make a real claim to knowing in that sense (insofar as one can know another without knowing him personally). But I'll post this rather critical guess at a politician's thoughts with the caveat that there's a very good chance that I don't know what I'm talking about. It will probably tell you more about me than about Kerry:

Perhaps I shouldn't step into the political blogging game, as I don't do enough reading to really keep up with it all, but there's an AP article on the Boston Globesite (hat tip: Taranto's "Best of the Web Today") that summarizes Kerry's answers to a peace group questionnaire thusly:

John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to "the perpetuation of war crimes."

He is quoted directly in these words:

"I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown," Kerry wrote. "We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities
present during Vietnam. I also fear having a professional army that views the
perpetuation of war crimes as simply 'doing its job.'"

It is unclear from the Globe's article whether the words "Kerry wrote" come in the place of his own pause or whether there is an reportorial ellipsis. But looking at the words we have, does it not seem that, whether he knows it or not, he is assuming "the poor and the black and the brown" are more likely to view "the perpetuation of war crimes as simply 'doing its job'"?

It is probably fair to say that Kerry views these as two different claims: 1. Volunteer armies not formed during times of great stress, or during long wars, are made up of those more in need of the job and more willing to take the risks of a military position. 2. Professional armies are inherently more likely to do whatever it takes to win. But there is a third claim, the one he's made recently: the stupid students end up in Iraq. Does he think there's an inherent connection between stupid students and black, brown, or poor people?