Three doors down, down, down

While waiting for Charlie Wilson's War (good movie, by the way) to start, we also saw the latest National Guard recruitment video. I've seen two such videos, and they both really rankled me. First, the producers of the video need to be honest about what National Guard service entails: the probability of fighting in Iraq is higher than that of providing disaster relief. (Of course, that's a problem in itself, if another natural disaster occurs.) Second, is paying a B-grade band like Three Doors Down to do a high-gloss video as good a use of scarce funds as, say, providing the Guard units in theater with better equipment?

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[Diodotus]

Here's another reason to be rankled: the same ad is playing before movies rated PG and PG-13, meaning it's targeting children. This is in violation of international law prohibiting the recruitment of minors for military service.

For more, see my entire rant on this topic (plus the video) at: http://elected-swineherd.blogspot.com/2007/12/us-military-stop-recruiting-children.html