“The Pentagon on Wednesday postponed by more than a week the release of military recruiting figures for May, as the Army and Marine Corps struggle to attract new troops amid the Iraq war.” (Washington Post)
Many of the pundits commenting on the current recruitment situation comment somewhat fatuously that we are learning how difficult it is to fight a protracted war with an all-volunteer army. More properly, it is an issue of the difficulty of attracting volunteers to an unjust pointless war predicated entirely on Big Lies. Why is that distinction lost on them?
