Military recruiters are becoming even more desperate as young people show their distaste for the war by not joining the military. Recruitment numbers are down, ROTC enrollment is low, and Uncle Sam wants anybody, and I mean ANYBODY to pick up a gun and point it at Iraqis.
A man who had been discharged from the Army a decade ago for suicidal feelings (not to mention talking to himself) during boot camp was allowed to try again and killed himself as a result. Military personnel are resulting to telling new recruits to lie on forms and top Army officials are becoming fed up with these practices, but not the reason recruiters are resorting to them.
We're recruiting gang members and the mentally ill to serve in our military while young, healthy men and women refuse to even acknowledge that a recruiter is speaking to them. I wonder why that is? Have the youth of this country finally decided that they do not want to go to war? Are they tried of being raised in a nation where violence and war is the norm? Probably not. My guess is that they're just too egotistical to dedicated their lives to anything bigger than themselves. But at least they're not joining the Army.
Monday, May 21, 2007
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I did a post on this back when the problem first surfaced because I thought it was funny that the Republicans, who always talk about the Market deciding, couldnt see that the Army Recruiting Market was deciding, and deciding against the war. I just heard an article not too long ago about how black enlistment was way down, even though for many poor people the army was a good way out of that trap. Not worth the price anymore, apparently.
Dave,
that's a great point. The youth are deciding against this war in the American way, anti-consumerism. They're just not buying what the army's selling.
Cannon fodder.
Reduce unemployment though...
Brutal times.
Disposable Heroes by Metallica would be fitting.
I think War Pigs by Black Sabbath is also fitting.
There are very few recent songs though. It's kind of troubling. But all of this is even MORE reason not to allow recruiters into schools to talk to our kids. If the're lying to adults, what makes us think that they won't tell our children anything they can?
Like Dave, I also posted on this when the problem first surfaced. When you consider the Bay Bush lied to sell the war, is it any surprise that recruiters can't sell the service without lies?
Eeryone I know has been saying that recruiters lie for years. My parents warned me never to sign anything a recruiter gave me without them looking at it first. There was a problem wit recruiters long before we got into this war.
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