With the first pick in the NBA draft, the United States Army selects John McArthur from Dallas, Texas.
Pick analysis: White male, married for 5 years to white female with 2 children, one boy and one girl. Works as a computer programmer for an independent firm. $62,000 salary.
With the second pick in the NBA draft, the United States DoD selects Juwon Harris from Portland, Oregon.
Pick analysis: This was a great pick up by the Department of Defense. They grabbed the best Farsi speaker in the whole pool. Now, they can really get some great intel. They might have to pay some severance because he'll be leaving behind 5 kids under age 12 and a sick wife.
With the third pick in the NBA draft, the United States Army selects you.
A draft is imminent. The National Security Ambassador in 2006 detailed that nearly 350,000 more troops are necessary in Iraq. More than such a pool exists in local army reserve and selective service databases. A random lottery is plausible. Necessary? Repugnant? 'Maybe' to the latter question.
Rather than seek Iran's ire (they can't do anything regardless; haha, President Mahmoud!) or lose more troops in the ensuing Sunni-Shiaa war, why not defer to the United Nations?
Oh wait, I forgot. China will always veto for vested oil interests. And the UN has failed repeatedly in recent diplomatic missions. And the US runs the UN and contributes the most technology and troop resources.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's a beautiful Catch-22.
NBA Draft time: National Bush Army!
By Keating - Posted on May 14th, 2006
The U.S. needed to go into Iraq with more troops from the very start. Instead we sent enought troops to topple Saddam, do pretty well, but still encouter far too much resistance from terrorists. If we would have sent more troops right away, I personally feel that we could have stopped the flow of terrorists coming from without while choking off the terrorists found within.
But the fundamental aspect of my posting is that a draft is imminent. We need trained troops and we can't rely on the United Nations as a powerhouse diplomatic broker in this fragmented region.