One Day Break in Military Recruiting

So the military has said it will stand down for one day in trying to recruit young men and women into the endless round of senseless Bush wars.

In truth, though, they might as well hang up the "Gone Fishing Permanently" signs.

No Child Left Behind was used, in part, as a way for recruiters to demand information from schools on which kids they could target.

There are countless stories now of recruiters lying and showing how to get candidates to lie to get these kids signed up.

Even with the economy so bad and college admission way up, kids aren't biting. They know the score. They know these aren't wars for any purpose other than the Bush-Halliburton-oil company profits and driving up fear to derail all other spending into the military industrial complex.

At some point, the Admin will go ahead and push the draft, but they'll make sure that protections are in place so the children of the well-heeled - as the prez did himself in Vietnam - don't have to go or even meet the basic obligations of their alternative service. The draft, while designed to "equalize" the playing field, will still largely target minorities and the poor.

And at some other point, we may need a military for a real concern, and we won't have much of one because we've spent four years now fighting senseless fights only to the benefit of the Bush cronies.