[Hemingway's Ghost]

For more background, here's the FR thread on the Globe's story.

[Always Right]

his "proof" that this was related to the War in Iraq was tangential, and, at best, anecdotal.

Liberals don't need no stinkin proof. Just look at Global Warming, it is anecdotal evidence, but yet the group-think is telling us the science is settled based on evidence that does not pass scientific mustard.

[Red Badger]

You might break it down into male vs female, white vs minority , and major vs Army job.............It’ll probably boil down to money in the long run.........

[Neoliberalnot]

If the declining rate claim is true, to whom do we owe this change?? I submit, the sniveling liberals feeding/controlling the old media and liberal anti-American politicians are mostly responsible for undermining the war effort. How do we expect our warriors to react to such treatment by their own countrymen?

[Just A Nobody]

Ping ~

[GATOR NAVY]

Fair winds and following seas . . .

A buddy of mine once pointed out that everyone says this without realizing that following seas suck. Ever try to steer a boat or a ship in following seas? You slide all over the place.

[ghostrider]

I have no doubt that the declining retention rates are directly related to the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, I believe they are not so much related to the war as they are related to blatant undermining of the war effort by political operatives and mainstream media in the United States. I say this from experience. There is not a day in my life where I was not affiliated with the USAF as a dependent, cadet, aircrew member or retiree. I can trace my military lineage From Operation Desert Storm back through Vietnam, Korea and WWII to the Civil War. My family is very pro military and proud of America's Soldiers.

Since Korea, the American Military's prime adversary has not been enemy combatants. Rather, the primary adversary has been a crumbling American society encouraged, nurtured and brainwashed by the mainstream American media managed by the radical extremists of the 1960's cultural revolution. The radical extremists managed to get most college newspapers "thrown" off campus, where they flourished with spurious funding funneled from America's enemies. As they graduated and moved into the mainstream, they grew like a cancer until they firmly controlled the mainstream media, which they transformed into a radical propaganda ministry. From this unofficial perch as the information overlords for American society, they filtered information and bombarded the masses with radical propaganda transforming masses of Americans into programmed zombies who react to comfort stimuli like man made "droids" with no soul. At some point soldiers may decide put their families ahead of the soulless zombies lead by more soulless politicians. I believe many soldiers are making a tactical retreat protecting their families and letting the front lines approach and consume the soulless zombies. Eventually, when the zombies are slaughtered and their consumption patterns get interrupted in enough calamitous events, the zombies may awaken. Hopefully, it will be in time to make a "last stand" before our destruction.

[TBP]

Is the MSM savable?