Support the troops
While pondering the latest casualty figures here I thought about what it means to support the troops. It's a little like "think of the children" but that's another post. But I thought "Hmmm what thing do most people easily understand as a symbol or quantitative value...Money!" So then I thought "Hey what if everyone gave just $1 for every KIA to Operation Homefront." Then I went into a funk as I realized both the number of US dead (just US not even counting Allied or civilians) and that it would take an installment plan just to pay up to this point...
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We are already paying. Unfortunately after the middle man takes his cut the troops are getting pennies on the dollar. Personally I'm growing a little thin with the whole "support the troops" thing. The guys who have been in for a while..ok..they got stuck in by a manufactured war. Anybody who has enlisted in the past 2 years I tend to feel they are part of the problem. They know or should know what's going on and what they are getting themselves into. The recuitment numbers are way off and they are taking people they would have tossed off a bridge just a couple of years ago but if NOBODY enlisted it would force the administration's hand real quit. Can't fight a war without cannon fodder.
a friend of mine's 18 year old daughter just enlisted in the army no less. they lived next door to a recruiter who knew a directionless teen when he saw one. told her she had more chance of dying in a car crash here than in a war overseas....
i don't think the kids that are enlisting now are necessarily gung-ho militaristic types, but i do think they have no sense and/or any understanding of the machinations of this administration. what an enlistee over 21 is thinking, who knows?
I see that they upped the enlistment age to 42. Whee, I wonder how many 42 yr. olds are signing up?
I was talking to some guy in the Guard and he was saying that they would take me at 43 because I have prior experience. HAHAHahahaha
You probably already saw the article about the autistic kid in Portland that was signed up by a gung ho recruiter. His folks tried everything to get him out and nothing happened. Then they went to the newspaper and bingo, big article in the Oregonian and the next thing you know, he was no longer in the army, and the recruiter was demoted or some punishment.
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