Comments on: Defeat from within

By: KH

KH — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 19:15:53 +0000

This is of a piece with the widely reported presence of street-gang members in the military. I assume the same factors are at work.

By: serial catowner

serial catowner — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:47:19 +0000

That would be the same army that won’t recruit people like Jeff Gannon. Except they did. Or did they? Was he really a soldier or did he just play one in (censored and deleted).
Shadows and fog.
I can tell you, though, that minorities are not amused by rascists. On the surface they may act politely, but inside they dislike rascists. As do I.

By: mr.ed

mr.ed — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:35:56 +0000

This is news? The services have been filled with these people for decades, hence the law banning them.

By: Brett Bellmore

Brett Bellmore — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:52:16 +0000

“Recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed “large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists” to join the military, a watchdog group said.”
As I understand, this amounts to a press release from the SPLC. It’s hard for me to confirm this, as a non-subscriber, but the claims do seem to mirror this SPLC press release:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?site_area=1&aid=197
Past experience leads me to take any claims made by that lot with a great deal of salt….

By: Neo

Neo — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:29:55 +0000

“The groups are being abetted, the report said, by pressure on recruiters, particularly for the Army, to meet quotas that are more difficult to reach because of the growing unpopularity of the war in Iraq.”
I’m having trouble reconciling this statement with this other one that I came across. They both can’t be right.
“The Army goal for re-enlistments for fiscal year 2006 was for 40,000 soldiers to extend their active duty commitments. With four months remaining in the fiscal year, they have already exceeded their goal of 40,000 and may have to go back to Congress for authorization to exceed their force structure manning limitations. Since Congress has been pontificating for the past couple of years that the Army is woefully under strength, that should not pose any difficulty.”