Stan Goff, "Victories Overruled"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Dec 15 10:48:46 PST 2002


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>
>>>The U.S. military depends upon poverty draft to fulfill much of
>>>its manpower needs, counting on poor young men and women who don't
>>>look to the military as a lifelong career.
>>
>>Everyone says that, but is it really true? Aren't their test scores
>>and such better than that?
>>
>>Doug
>
>***** _Population Representation in the Military Services --
>Fiscal Year 1999_, Chapter 2 "Characteristics of Active Component
>Accessions -- Race/Ethnicity" (November 2000)

So "minorities" are overrepresented, but they're not drawn from the ranks of the desperate. And with training, I bet they become just what I said - a dedicated corps of professional killers. The ruling class learned its lesson from Vietnam - no more surly conscripts.

Doug



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