I wonder how many people today, running and ruining America, remember the 1960's? The early 1960's started out very idealistically. John Kennedy was elected president and there was a feeling of optimism about our lives. A goal of landing on the moon was voiced and by the end of the decade, accomplished. Overt racism was finally being brought to a heel. Then came the Bay of Pigs aborted invasion and the scariest moment of all, the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Domino Theory of southeast Asia started to take hold. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The world changed forever. Lyndon Johnson took the war in Vietnam to a new level. His dream of the "Great Society" at least ushered in Medicare. The seemingly endless war in Vietnam was finally ended but only after draft age protesters rallied the rest of the nation to end it. The powers that be needed to come up with a way to take the protest out of the lucrative business of war. Hence the all volunteer Armed Services. No draft, no protest. Even better still, let private contractors make billions servicing the troops. Ship all the jobs to a cheap overseas labor force and soon the all volunteer Armed services will have a limitless pool of Americans to draw from. Isn't evolution grand?
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