Some Thoughts

I am still trying to collect responses to your two latest huge posts. But here is something I have been thinking about lately.

Has the politicization of the military hurt recruiting? Of course, one can take issue with whether or not the military is politicized, but given the recent scandal at the Air Force Academy regarding fundamentalist christians, and the Republican insistence in 2000 that the military vote would swing Florida for them, I think there is evidence that the military is politicized for the republican party. So the point is, what patriotic liberal would want to serve in such a military? Versus republicans, liberals are much more committed to sacrifice, remember conservatives are the ones always bitching about having to pay for the society in which we live through taxes. Many liberals are committed to the idea of service as well. So the question remains as to whether or not the politicization of the military has hurt recruiting.

Personally, I think it has, and I think it will continue to hurt recruiting.