Journal BandwidthHog's Journal: Civilian Reserve Corp 5
WTF? Am I the only one seriously creeped out by this? How come the first word that went through my mind when I heard that bit was “Blackwater?”
And yet a cursory search of Thine Intartubes shows that World+Dog did not have the same visceral reaction I did (or has the sense to keep their damn mouths shut). So would someone please get on here and reassure me that a non-military military force is a good idea? Seems all I can think about are other examples of countries creating such, uhh, semi-military forces (for lack of a better, less chilling prefix) and pondering how that turned out for them...
Huh? (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
If it wasn't being proposed by Bush... (Score:2)
If it wasn't being proposed by Bush, it wouldn't bother me. A lot of other countries have similar things (except for the part "by allowing us to hire civilians with critical skills to serve on missions abroad when America needs them") - OK, maybe not so similar at all. Yeah, it is interesting that I haven't heard anything about it, however.
From the summary of his ideas (which is all I've read), if they were coming from anyone else I'd think they were mostly good ideas. However, I'm afraid I will have to c
It's a way to pretend military deaths are down (Score:1)
In WW II or Vietnam, they would have been military personnel, and counted as military casualties.
Now they can pretend we're not losing as much as we are.
This allows them to pretend fewer soldiers are dying, while the quantity each day increases nonetheless.
Don't we already have a Peace Corps? (Score:2)
The police part, of course, should be called "Team America".