Who Is IOZ?: Reactionaries on the Campus

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Gates warns that the nation's brightest yutes are not killing enough foreigners.

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Professor Coldheart said...: Youse been to college? We only take yeggs what's been to college. Ain't that right, Dane? Heh heh heh ... I'm kidding, of course.; 1:20 PM
Anonymous said...: It's a strange speech to give now, with the freedom campaign in Iraq officially over and Afghanistan...well, no one really cares about Afghanistan. I mean, what possible other conflicts with countries that did not attack or pose a threat to the United States could he be concerned about?

I do like the quick reference to the draft. I mean, if you have to reinstate slavery in order to keep the military in touch with today's youth, so be it.; 2:03 PM
Leonard said...: He rejected the draft! He just wants the nation's smartest kids to consider, as they obviously have not, the big upside that offsets the modest pay, terrible working conditions, substantial chance to be killed or maimed, etc.: “the opportunity to be given extraordinary responsibility”.; 2:15 PM
IOZ said...: LOL, yeah, I know that if there's one thing I crave from my bosses, or my employees crave from me, it's "extraordinary responsibility." Ha!; 2:47 PM
Montag said...: so, what, it looks good on your resume?; 3:08 PM
Anonymous said...: Most of these Dukies are probably going on to business school and Wall Street. So they'll get their killing and pillaging in, just not in the same way that John Wayne used to do it in the movies.; 4:02 PM
Happy Jack said...: Huh. College kids don't want to kill and die in the service of the empire.

Maybe they're actually learning something useful for once.; 4:44 PM
Mr.Fundamental said...: “How long can these brave and broad young shoulders carry the burden that we — as a military, as a government, as a society — continue to place on them?”

haha - THEN STOP; 5:44 PM
Inkberrow said...: At least elite undergraduates could care enough to spit on American soldiers. But since Roe v. Wade, "babykillers" just doesn't resonate like it used to.; 5:51 PM
Ted Stein said...: In his defense (sort of) this nation has created a virtually hereditary warrior class.; 8:53 PM
Miles Gloriousus said...: The pay right now is pretty good.

The problem with recruiting at places like Duke (and I went to a similar school) is that most of the people who go there certainly don't want to go into the military, they want to order the military about. Or they want to be the hard faced men who did very, very well out of the war.

Eventually the soldiers will catch on that the elite, and not just the liberal elite, hates them, and sometime after that things will get ugly. I think Gates knows that, but there is not much he can do about it at this point.; 11:28 PM
Ted Stein said...: Eventually the soldiers will catch on

Doubt it.; 12:35 AM
IOZ said...: Everyone loves a parade.; 9:14 AM
silas1898 said...: I hate parades; 3:21 PM
Anonymous said...: This is dangerous. A freicorps in the making.; 4:15 PM
Anonymous said...: I would like to exchange links with your site whoisioz.blogspot.com
Is this possible?; 6:38 PM

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