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Riding High On A Wave Of Misery

It should speak volumes about exactly what type of institution the US military has turned into when it can hardly contain its glee over the recruiting bonanza provided to it by America’s current economic depression.

With the Iraq and Afghani “cakewalks” turning into meat grinders, it is understandable (from a heartless, practical level) that the US military will take whatever it can get, however it can get it. But when Bill Carr, the “deputy undersecretary of defense for military personnel policy” appears positively giddy over how the desperate plight of America’s unemployed "allowed us to be, for much of the year, in a very favorable position", it just gives yet another reason to pray for a quick end to our economic malaise.

Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 10:03 PM | Comments (0) | Return

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