It could be that urban soldiers tend to have more street smarts, and in a war that is being fought in the streets that is a material advantage to survival.
Neither are willing or able to step up and do the job of defending America.
I'm sure the New York Times really gives a damn that rural people are dying.
They are recycling this stuff again.
Could it be that rural counties are more conservative and patriotic?
I don't suppose they are seeking to balance things out by sending money out from NYC to sparsely populated counties, are they?
I hope the graph for total active duty personnel looks roughly the same as the death rate graph or they've drawn the wrong conclusion.
This is nothing more than the usual bull@#%* way of trying to drive a wedge by using class warfare. This time it's thinnly disguised. Rural soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have allways been the majority as long as I've been on active duty. So what?!!! Who cares?!!! That is just the way it is. We have an all volunteer force, these just happen to be the people that chose to volunteer and serve their country, and 99.9% of them do it honorably!!! The NY Times needs to STFU and fix itself!!
While the author feigns concern for rural communities, this statement shows his bias for urban areas.
Red Counties - Blue Counties
Better and faster medical care.
Wanna bet that the original story concept or assignment was to prove that it was poor blacks who were bearing a disproportionate burden by acting as cannon fodder, and that the reporters and editors were miffed that the data did not support their preconceptions? No doubt they were then faced with the typical New York Times dilemma - do we resort to the outright lie and go ahead with the original story line even though it is not supported by the facts, or do we huddle for a few moments and devise a different way to spin the facts in a way that is still calculated to do maximum damage by portraying the United States as a land of limited opportunity and no hope...
whatta farce! since when have urban "intellectuals" given a damn about rural people?
We at the New York Times Company know nothing about the military other than that we loathe it. From deep within that cocoon of ignorance we offer the following half-baked nonsense:
Why are they using counties? Many cities or urban areas cover several counties. If scan counties listed by pop in 2000 you'll find a lot of cities in the 500,000 to 1 million category which might explain the dip in the deaths. (http://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/phc-t29/tab03a.pdf)
IMHO, the only real issue here, is the Times scents what it percieves as a potential Red State wedge it's trying to develop for Ms. Hillarhea.......
Thus continuing the proud tradition of using a military career to get the hell out of a nowhere small town.
Could this happen at your school ?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/570438/posts
I should add some other horrible things that also happend:
Christmas carols and other religious songs are sung & played at concerts.
Every one stands at the start of sporting events. And remove there hats with out being told to. As students sing the National Anthem.
Even the liberal teachers have guns and chase bambi’s through the woods.