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host · 10-15-2007, 09:55 AM

Fourteen posts now...besides my three..and no one has posted a description of what, in the US transformed by the decisions of the political majority, between 2001 and 2007..is worth the efforts of our soldiers to preserve or maintain..... I wonder whether most US soldiers would choose to fight to preserve the ideals of John Edwards...or of Bill O'Reilly?

Many enlisted in the military in the year following 9/11...before the invasion of Iraq. I understand that, once deployed, soldiers fight for the guys on either side of them....but what ideals would motivate someone to enlist in the US military, today? If you were a military recruiter, aside from benefits, how would you persuade a young person to sign up?

10-15-2007, 09:55 AM	#18 (permalink)
host Banned	Fourteen posts now...besides my three..and no one has posted a description of what, in the US transformed by the decisions of the political majority, between 2001 and 2007..is worth the efforts of our soldiers to preserve or maintain..... I wonder whether most US soldiers would choose to fight to preserve the ideals of John Edwards...or of Bill O'Reilly? Many enlisted in the military in the year following 9/11...before the invasion of Iraq. I understand that, once deployed, soldiers fight for the guys on either side of them....but what ideals would motivate someone to enlist in the US military, today? If you were a military recruiter, aside from benefits, how would you persuade a young person to sign up?