After months of falling below target numbers, we finally find out what's posing the biggest challenge for military recruiters. Was it drug use? Lack of education? Mental illness?
Nope.
(Besides, recruiters use their ingenuity to get around minor inconveniences like those).
As it happens, there are just a lot of parents out there who'd prefer that their sons and daughters not have their asses shot off in the name of a deceitful, misguided, and ill-planned war of the neo-con artists' engineering. From the NYT:
"Mothers and fathers around the country said they were terrified that their children would have to be killed - or kill - in a war that many see as unnecessary and without end.
A Department of Defense survey last November, the latest, shows that only 25 percent of parents would recommend military service to their children, down from 42 percent in August 2003.
'Parents,' said one recruiter in Ohio who insisted on anonymity because the Army ordered all recruiters not to talk to reporters, 'are the biggest hurdle we face.'"
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I guess that means 75% of parents hate America, now, too...
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