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Mar. 6th, 2006 09:36 amThe controversy over military recruiters on college campuses baffles me.
They're recruiters. They ask you to join the military. They don't shanghai you in a dark alley so you wake up the next morning on a Naval cruiser -- they tell you good aspects of military service, and try to convince you that it would be to your benefit (and the benefit of the nation) to join.
Do people think college students are so utterly lacking in conviction and will that they must be "protected" from hearing someone tell them they should join the military? We trust 6-year-olds to "Just say 'no'!" to drugs, but can't allow college students to be faced with having to choose what to do with their lives?
They're recruiters. They ask you to join the military. They don't shanghai you in a dark alley so you wake up the next morning on a Naval cruiser -- they tell you good aspects of military service, and try to convince you that it would be to your benefit (and the benefit of the nation) to join.
Do people think college students are so utterly lacking in conviction and will that they must be "protected" from hearing someone tell them they should join the military? We trust 6-year-olds to "Just say 'no'!" to drugs, but can't allow college students to be faced with having to choose what to do with their lives?
