The Bright Side of Having Your Arms and Legs Blown Off

The Business section of today’s Washington Post has an article about Iraq War veterans who came home missing arms and legs but who are nevetheless “in high demand” by government contractors. Next to pictures of legless veterans doing push-ups and sit-ups is an article about how military contractors are hiring the disabled veterans to assist in the building of National Greatness Conservativism in Iraq — and to help in the manufacture of more deadly weapons.“[E]ven if you’re missing a limb, that doesn’t mean you’re incapable of supporting the military through a company,” says the head of a military retirees association.

In other words, military contractors are hiring maimed and disfigured veterans so that the war — and the occupation — can continue indefinitely. This will lead to even more maimed and mangled bodies of young Americans, who will also be hired up by military contractors to assure that the war and occupation last even longer yet, which will in turn cause more maiming and disfiguring, and the cycle is repeated with no end in sight.

Finally, a clear defninition of what Billy Kristol means by “national greatness conservativism.”

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11:43 am on February 28, 2005