Right after 9/11 I was all full of piss and vinegar and called the local armed forces recruiters. They laughed at me because of my age. So, my next thought was that there would be a real need for speakers of Arabic, Farsi, and Dari, and I checked the local universities' foreign language programs. Nothing.
I agree with the article that there is a real shortage of classes in Middle Eastern languages.
They told me it would be all special forces and that I would basically be digging s*** on some base in the South( and they were right).