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September 30, 2005
Army Faces Worst Recruiting Slump in Years
Nothing makes me madder than when they go to radical right wing think tanks to get the reasons for anything happening in America. The Army's recruiting problems are a direct reflection of the party in power in America right now. There hasn't been a sudden drop in patriotism in this country, the economy is no where close to being as good as the moronic Republican party believes and it's not the daily bad news coming out of the Middle East. It's the fact that everyone knows that the Republican party will happily throw your life away on a whim for a major campaign Contributor. Does anyone in America really give a damn about the profit margins of the big oil? Absolutely not! Well no one except for the Republican party. So it's hard to get fired up about dying to defend Democracy when you really know what you're doing is protecting and expanding the profit margins for CEO's that hate you anyway. If you want to increase participation in the Armed Forces you've got to use them properly. We've got to stop having these open ended conflicts all over the world that have little chance of success. We've got to completely abandon unilateral action as an ideology. If something is so important and compelling that it requires unilateral action, then you can get a declaration of war from Congress. Presidents, both Democratic and Republican, have got to start following the rules set down in the Constitution for waging war with our military. Then and only then will you get your recruitment numbers back up to reasonable levels. Actually if you implement that you will easily be able to grow and expand the military to any level you want.
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Posted by ManDrake at September 30, 2005 7:25 AM
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Mandrake has anyone looked at the National Guard numbers?
Posted by: Royal at October 1, 2005 1:10 PM
The article just says they are much worse than the regular army's number.
Posted by: ManDrake at October 2, 2005 8:20 AM