Spread out over 700+ world-wide bases, we use their bodies, blood, and physical and mental wounds to expensively implement foreign policies, while polluting the atmosphere fueling an awesome armada. During George W's Iraq War, the cost of fielding an active-duty Star Wars-clad soldier climbed to $1 million each.
Each of the addition 9,800 troops assigned to Afghanistan in 2015 is estimated to cost $2.04 million. Ike must be regurgitating.
When JFK created the Peace Corps through Executive Order on March 1, 1961, he said,
"The life will not be easy, but it will be rich and satisfying. For every American who participates in the Peace Corps will know that he or she is sharing in the great common task of bringing to man that decent way of life, which is the foundation and a condition of peace."
To offset our militant numbers, and make soldiering easier for our troops, barely 220,000 PCVs have served by 2016.
In recently unearthed Dead Sea Scrolls, it has been deciphered that the heavenly Gate Keeper smiled upon JFK and most of the affairs he pursued. The Gate Keeper sympathized with those swarms of earthlings who grieved for JFK and, with his Big Ears, heard Gabriel twirling his rosary and mumble,"Too bad JFK wasn't dealt more time to build a much bigger army of sandaled apostles," upon which the next part in this series preys... or prays.
Isn't it time to introduce in Congress the American World Service Corps National Service (AWSCNS) Proposal?
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