Generation Bubble

Semper Fudge: America’s Unfit Military Recruits

Like the British imperialists of a century ago, we Americans find ourselves stuck with, as leading Peak-Oil doomsayer James Howard Kunstler puts it, “a country not worth fighting for” thanks to years of financial speculation and globalized commerce run wild. And we’re saddled with an army that couldn’t fight for for this country even if they wanted to. The very stuff of health and tradition has been turned, like so many things in this profit-mad country, into a vehicle for making the rich richer.