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Friday, February 16, 2007

Needed a Few Good (and Bad) Men


With fewer and fewer middle class Americans, willing to sign up to the good fight in the Middle East, the US Military, facing a recruiting shortfall, have relaxed their entry requirements. Potential recruits with criminal records, some serious, are being increasingly welcomed. The number of recruits with serious criminal records has doubled. I still have a vivid memory of the recruiting scene in Fahrenheit 9/11 as the recruiters try to encourage some lost causes to see the world (and shoot people). Next up recruiting in the prisons and tours of anti 'merican empires as a condition of parole or release. With plans to increase the US military by 100,000, they may have no option (other than the draft). You can just see middle class America loading up the trucks and heading to Canada if Bush and Cheney decide to do some adventuring next door to Iraq.

2 comments:

James Higham said...

Your post virtually covers it all. Worrying trend.

GP said...

News that puts a worrying spin on Welington's words about his troops: "I don't know what they do to the enemy but, by God, they terrify me"