John McCain knows how to win wars. John McCain thinks it’s a good idea to start more wars that he will win because he knows how and that’s why (Sigh. If you insist on details, he has unlocked the secret code: hold L + R + Y + A + B + X and press Start, IIRC – but don’t tell Iran, Chavez or Obama). Even with unlimited victories unlocked, John McCain knows that he’ll need more soldiers (the unlimited lives cheat remains elusive). A problem you say? What with the current climate of lazy and spoiled Americans not wanting to get blown up in the desert for someone else’s oil profits?
A problem for some perhaps. Not John McCain. His time spent as a POW accumulating more commander in chief building experience than a thousand Obamas has taught him that you increase the size of the army with the recruits you have, not the recruits you want (besides it doesn’t matter what you might want because he knows how to win wars…have you been paying attention at all morans?):
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office paired with the Newport-based Army recruiter on Saturday July 12, in an effort to convey information to jail inmates about the possibility of serving in the U.S. armed forces. [...]
Staff Sergeant Justin Morlock of the Army recruiting office in Newport gave some of his own time to the project and was on hand to provide information to all interested individuals. Over a time frame of two hours, Morlock was able to contact more than 30 inmates, out of which three were found to be eligible for military service.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for rehabilitation, second chances, redemption, forgiveness and other forms of hemophilia of the heart (it’s the liberal side of me – the part that hasn’t sufficiently accepted the teachings of Christ I suppose). But, uh, can anyone see how this might not be the ideal venue for recruitment into the post-Petraeus military? The brave new military that is supposedly shifting to a counterinsurgency footing that requires remarkable levels of self-restraint and discipline from the top brass down to the shooters?
Is that moot?
July 21, 2008 at 8:21 pm
can anyone see how this might not be the ideal venue for recruitment into the post-Petraeus military
I bet the Bush and McCain camp(s) see it as less than ideal, too… only three out of thirty!
July 21, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I smell the beginnings of an elite fighting force, the likes not seen since “The Dirty Dozen.”,
July 21, 2008 at 9:41 pm
America puts lots and lots of people in jail, and there they sit, not doing anything useful. So of course Hanoi John sees it as an opportunity!
Hey, let’s give powerful firearms and explosives to convicted violent felons! What could possibly go wrong?
July 22, 2008 at 1:58 pm
To bad Scooter Libby was pardoned, he’d have been perfect!
July 22, 2008 at 7:20 pm
The Great Old One would do better than this…
July 22, 2008 at 10:06 pm
God damn Morlocks, rounding up human prisoners and sending them to their gruesome demise: fueling a sinister, parasitic culture of human half-breeds who want nothing more than our perpetual and unquestioning enslavement!
What’s that? He’s not a Morlock, his NAME is just Morlock? Nevertheless, I stand by my statement.