Comments on: I’d trust those Georgians to guard the border https://thenewneo.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:40:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Vince P https://thenewneo.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-53298 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:40:16 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-53298 So Darwin.. does calling someone a NAZI help you to avoid making an actual argument?

Or do you do it for the emotional high?

]]> By: Darwin https://thenewneo.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-53294 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:06:15 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-53294 This blog seems to be full of nazis and biggots. First of all Sergei seems to have selective and very biased perception about crime in Moscow and in the rest of Russia. He seems to have not heard of notorious Russian mafia that has reached far beyond the Eurasian continent. Also, those of you that think that Anglo-Saxons are these perfect bunch, remind me please weren’t those the same guys that created death camps in Europe, plus what about the Irish organized crime in America. And what all of these has to do with Iraq?

]]> By: Laura https://thenewneo.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-42572 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:27:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-42572 Yes Ymarsakar, I do know that. That’s why you will see the words “trade offs” in all scholarly journals written by military scholars and economists who’s work is about just that.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-42561 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:51:57 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-42561 If you crash the US economy, Laura, that won’t be a problem anymore. Every proposed policy has negative consequences.

]]> By: Lee https://thenewneo.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-42557 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:11:46 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-42557 I wish she’d make up her mind…
Either you want more soldiers, or you don’t. “Aggressive recruiting”( by whose standards?) is a no-no, so you push for involuntary conscription, huh? Now, there’s a solution you can live with huh? No “aggressive recruiting” there.
Sheesh…

]]> By: Laura https://thenewneo.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-42547 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:51:49 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-42547 An Associated Press review of the increasingly aggressive recruiting offerings found the Army is not only dangling more sign-up rewards – it’s loosening rules on age and weight limits, education and drug and criminal records.

It’s all part of an Army effort to fill its ranks even as the percentage of young people who say they plan to join the military has hit a historic low – 16 percent by the Pentagon’s own surveying – in the fifth year of the Iraq war.

]]> By: Laura https://thenewneo.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-42546 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:42:05 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-42546 Sergey:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/06/01/fewer_high_quality_army_recruits/

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-42544 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:22:21 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-42544 Anyhow, the caliber of soldier desired are not the ones signing on.

You don’t think people that take an oath to defend the US Constitution against foreign and domestic enemies in the Army and Marines, meet the desired caliber… that’s an interesting statement.

Caliber is one thing, and numbers another

]]> By: Lee https://thenewneo.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-42533 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:04:42 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-42533 Guess some people seem to think a drink thrown in their face is an attempt to schmooze them. Notice you’re on your knees lapping it up, too.
And don’t worry, Sergey, the military is loyal to the country, like your father’s. Not to whichever party it feels “supports” it better, despite desperate alchoholics thinking spilled drinks are advances. Which is why most military men and women are registered Republicans, who politically share their loyalty.
And while service from Eastern European nationalities is something “new”, those from Latin American countries has traditionally always been high, rather than “shocking”.
We don’t need a “foreign legion”, we just need less doting mothers.
Urra!

]]> By: Laura https://thenewneo.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-42530 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:33:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/09/15/id-trust-those-georgians-to-guard-the-border/#comment-42530 Sergey, you would be shocked to know the number of Russian and Latin American soldiers serving now. A medic in my son’s unit worked towards citizenship that way.

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