Dumbass Says What?

Some fellow named Ben Barber seems to think that the US military should be used to rebuild infrastructure here at home.

Over the past decade more than two million U.S. troops have served overseas in battle zones.

What will they do once they are back home and free from the job of war?

First thought that comes to some minds is that there are a number of other countries crying out for a nation-building attempt to make them over into imitation Americas. Our troops are all packed up and ready to be sent to the next battlefield in the war against Godless communism — whoops, we won that one already — well between some obnoxious value system and the American way of life.

He's already snarking, as you can see. 94 million people died as a result of Communism, and you can imagine him sneering and rolling his eyes as he says "Godless communism." So we can figure out he's something of a leftist prick.

Well, earlier and wiser human beings used to say that a powerful military ensures it will never be used. A well-trained and equipped army assures that no one will attack you. Except for a small number of wackos who should be expected from time to time to try and provoke wider wars but should be defeated by police and intelligence work.

CALL THE SWAT TEAM!



So if our courageous soldiers are not going to invade Ivory Coast or Honduras or Fiji, what will they do to keep busy, earn their keep and contribute to the common good? We can’t lay them off in a time of unemployment over nine percent as if they were simply school teachers and auto workers.

Oh, I don't know. Train, maybe? Do you think that soldiers in peacetime sit around reading comic books and masturbating?

And we don’t want them using their skills in mayhem as private contractors in crime or to settle traffic disputes.

Because Lord knows our veterans run apeshit on a regular basis, don't they? Hair-trigger tempers and PTSD, ready to go on murderous rampages. Leftist prick.

So, I propose that the returning soldiers be used to feed the hungry and house the homeless and police the border and teach in rural or inner city schools. Many of these soldiers have learned to do nation building overseas. Let’s do it at home. Building levees, rebuilding after hurricanes, soil conservation, and even caring for the ill and infirm are all needed at home.

Haven't heard of the Posse Comitatus Act, I see. And we have organizations tasked to do what you are asking. They are called the Peace Corps and Americorps.

These patient, smart and tireless soldiers could help American Indians improve their reservations, mentor inner cities youth, and work in healthcare facilities as physical fitness trainers. They could also serve with U.S. foreign aid programs bringing hands-on experience plus a more down-to-earth human contact which is the most powerful way to win friends world wide.

Now I know that all of us who have been trained in our professions are loathe to step back and begin work at something new where we often begin at the bottom. But are soldiers that anxious to return to battle? And wouldn’t it be possible to keep them employed, trained and equipped to respond in a few days to a call up in case of a threat to the United States, much as Israeli men and women remain in the army reserves throughout their working lives?

If you ask them to become nurses, mentors and PT teachers then they aren't training to be soldiers, sailors and airmen, which is what they signed up to do. How many will be willing to work in ghettos and other impoverished areas? At the end of their enlistments they'll simply walk away.