Those who have served overseas in our military know our military corps are temporarily able to bring troops, goods, and power to foreign and domestic problems when required. But these armies do not provide long-term development that insures that crazies do not dominate minds and lands when they leave.
Those who have served in Peace Corpsish undertakings bring intangibles other than goods and power. Those inexpensive intangibles plant the seeds of long-term development. They bring the cheap fishing pole, not the expensive gun to town. They proverbially teach the hungry as well as themselves how to fish, which insures that crazies do not dominate minds and lands when they, or the military, leave.
Why have we avoided building such an army that military generals now scratch for?
Why have we avoided building the million person corps that Kennedy's New Frontier envisioned, which could have avoided so many of the costly military quagmires, famines, atrocities, genocides, hatreds, etc., that have erupted since?
How will we dramatically expand and bring such already-in-the-field power -- sans gunboats -- to recovering and rebuilding after the next natural or manmade disaster, famine, genocide, levee break, earthquake, hurricane, etc"?
It's the 21st century, where over a billion of the world's stressed 7 billion people struggle to get by on $2 a day and America, once the world's dominant economic and military power, increasingly drones its solution to world problems through digitized cross hairs, and arming $1 million Star War look-alikes to fight natives, who make bombs from fertilizer, bailing wire, and clothes pins.
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