[StAthanasiustheGreat]

Flame Away my friends, I wrote a response which I won't post here.

[delacoert]

Less intelligent people are better equipped for most military positions, and have far less to lose.

A totally outrageous statement, flying in the face of the evidence of the some more of the most intelligent and capable men who have served in the armed forces that it has been my privilege to know.

[Evie Munchkin]

"Less intelligent people are better equipped for most military positions, and have far less to lose."

I take great offense at this statement. I joined the Army after graduating from college (cum laude, no less). I saw it as a great opportunity to do something different and see the world while serving my country. I met some of the smartest (and funniest) people that I have ever known while I was serving.

I am so tired of these dang liberals insulting the military by saying that soldiers had no other options in life but to join because they were either to stupid or poor to do anything better with their lives. It is simply not true.

[popdonnelly]

Could it be the author is jealous of people in the military?

[FreedomCalls]

Young males are easily manipulated during the period of their lives when they exist outside the female domain, after the mother and before the wife.

One third of the military are females now. Why do they join?

[Garvin]

"A real tragedy occurs when a young man, susceptible to the military’s appeal and nonetheless intelligent and creative, signs up to become cannon fodder. He’ll probably leave the military alive, but he’ll have been irreversibly molded, less inclined to dissent."

Henry M. Bowles the third sounds like a Jealous little man.

"Whoever does not have the stomach for this fight, let him depart. Give him his money to speed his departure since we wish not to die in this man’s company. Whoever lives past today and comes home safely will rouse himself every year on this day, show his neighbor his scars, and tell him embellished stories of all their great feats of battle. These stories he will teach his son and from this day until the end of the world we shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for whoever has shed his blood with me shall be my brother. And those men afraid to go will think themselves lesser men as they hear of how we fought and died together. "

[SauronOfMordor]

He’ll probably leave the military alive, but he’ll have been irreversibly molded, less inclined to dissent. Less intelligent people are better equipped for most military positions, and have far less to lose.

The real reason. They fear too many bright young men will be rendered immune to Leftist indoctrination