Who would have ever thought that they could wage endless wars of aggression even without the draft? I guess control of the media served them just as well as the draft did back in the day. Absent gory combat video footage on the six o'clock evening news, they can paint enlistment in the armed forces as something it isn't, and the populace will swallow it.
Helps that for a lot of people, the military is the best job available, not to mention the GI Bill and other bennies that may otherwise not be on offer.
It's also my understanding that illegals can sign up for the military as a fast track to citizenship. We're told to look on military members as heroes; no, those are firefighters and inner-city math teachers. When I look on members of the military, I think to myself, "Oh, so WalMart wasn't hiring that week."
Who would have ever thought that they could wage endless wars of aggression even without the draft? I guess control of the media served them just as well as the draft did back in the day. Absent gory combat video footage on the six o'clock evening news, they can paint enlistment in the armed forces as something it isn't, and the populace will swallow it.
Helps that for a lot of people, the military is the best job available, not to mention the GI Bill and other bennies that may otherwise not be on offer.
It's also my understanding that illegals can sign up for the military as a fast track to citizenship. We're told to look on military members as heroes; no, those are firefighters and inner-city math teachers. When I look on members of the military, I think to myself, "Oh, so WalMart wasn't hiring that week."
I know foreigners who enlisted because it is a fast track to citizenship.