You're all missing the point. America's Army isn't some unique thing for recruiting people, its just a symptom on a defining characteristic of American culture. For sure it is INCREDIBLY f*cked up, but we are indoctrinated from birth to accept militarism as a daily event. When I was in Chicago last year the Blue Angels were doing stupid tricks in the sky overhead, burning $100,000 a day in jet fuel. Why? There is a tank parked in the front yard of a house (VFW owned) down the street from me. Why? There is a NASCAR that says "Go Army" on it. Why? The supermarket near me sells Tipman paintball guns that are officially licensed by the US Army. In a society like ours people don't even notice this shit, but it should be extremely disturbing. In a place like Belgium or Japan or Iceland those things would be viewed as dystopian nightmare fuel.
Our government is broke as hell, but half our tax revenue goes into blowing up other countries or preparing to blow up other countries. We've let our leaders sucker us into one war after another for centuries and we look the other way when the evidence that we were lied to about foreign threats comes to the front. Where are those WMDs? Its just more more bullshit scam, as was the Tonkin incident, the sinking of the Maine, the catalysts for American wars against Spain, Mexico, the Philippines, Nicaragua, Honduras, Grenada, Panama, you name it. All bullshit. Why do we have 10,000 troops still occupying Okinawa? Bases in 130 countries? Americans can't even name 130 countries, but they'll pay the taxes to fund the bases. Enough nuclear weaponry to kill every human on the planet, this minute...but we're f*cking with Iran?
Of course if you question any of this you are accused of having your head in the sand (the opposite is true) or being unpatriotic (that part is true) by f*ckheads who buy commemorative coins from late night infomercials and think Obama is a Muslim.
Now we have the ultimate excuse; the War on Terror! WTF does that even mean? Will it end when "terror" is defeated? The perfect endless war. Well, endless as long as we have a million people willing to kill on command for the McDonalds manager pay. That's essential.
This isn't a trend unique to the US by any means. All wars are started with lies, and the people who start them always say they have no other choice. This just happens to be America's turn to be Italy, Egypt, Germany, England, France. Eventually we'll get tired of it, like England did, and China will take over the job. The thing that worries me is that military weapons now are much more powerful than they were when thousands of Britons were dying every month trying to keep India British. The stakes are higher for sure.
