Rumsfeld's Worst Nightmare: America's Mothers, page


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Topic started on 30-6-2005 @ 09:41 AM by EastCoastKid
Under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, the military thrived. Even under Clinton recruitment remained solid. In the handful of years George Bush, Jr. has been in charge, his Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has managed to run the military into the ground. The Army and Marines have been missing their recruitment quotas for months now. At the least, this is alarming.

Recruitment efforts are becoming more and more aggressive. This is having an unintended effect: Concerned mothers are becoming proactive in waging a campaign to keep their children away from recruiters who are swarming campuses, blowing smoke up kids butts and providing them with 'cool' violent video games. You can't lie to mom. They know the draft is coming and they intend to do everything in their parental power to keep their kids out of the hands of the death merchants. Rumsfeld has met his match.


The Army's Hard Sell
By Bob Herbert
The New York Times

Monday 27 June 2005

The all-volunteer Army is not working. The problem with such an Army is that there are limited numbers of people who will freely choose to participate in an enterprise in which they may well be shot, blown up, burned to death or suffer some other excruciating fate.

The all-volunteer Army is fine in peacetime, and in military routs like the first gulf war. But when the troops are locked in a prolonged war that yields high casualties, and they look over their shoulders to see if reinforcements are coming from the general population, they find -as they're finding now - that no one is there.

Although it has been lowering standards, raising bonuses and all but begging on its knees, the Army hasn't reached its recruitment quota in months. There are always plenty of hawks in America. But the hawks want their wars fought with other people's children.
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