Any American who has [a] formerly served in the Kuwait, Afghanistan, or Iraq wars and [2] then returns to a war zone contracted out to someone else making money off of a war, should know better than to call him- or herself "just a spectator here." This is a basic critical thinking skill that should be hammered into American citizens in both high school and college-instead of allowing military recruiters to meander up-and-down the hallways of our schools spewing out their paid-for-by-Big-Brother-government propaganda.
As long as I observe the continuing string of former American and British vets serving again and again as bigger paid earners for military contactors in the Middle East, I will have to agree with the results of the survey discussed in that Michigan paper, "American education continues to be disillusioning."
NOTES
Bay Area United Against the War, http://www.bauaw.org/blog/archive/2005_05_22_archive.html
Hell No, We Still Won't Go!, http://stopthedraft.com/index.php?articleID=2104§ionID=104
It's Easy to Talk About! http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/13/rangel-draft/
The Media Floats the Draft Balloon, http://www.thelibertypapers.org/categories/draft/
Military Recruiters Boost Offers to Dwindling Group of Prospects,
http://regulus2.azstarnet.com/comments/index.php?id=195753
Should Progressives and Anti-War Movement Oppose the Draft? http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=796
Yarrow: Disillusioned with College, http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/07/12/0712yarrow_edit.html
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