Another enigmatic program for what reason? I get the premise, but where is it going to be funded from, who's going to run it and how's it going to really function?
A second task we can take on together is to design and establish a volunteer Civilian Reserve Corps. Such a corps would function much like our military reserve. It would ease the burden on the Armed Forces by allowing us to hire civilians with critical skills to serve on missions abroad when America needs them. And it would give people across America who do not wear the uniform a chance to serve in the defining struggle of our time.
Why am I not seeing the cheeto-eating brigades of Chickenhawks flocking from Mommy's basement to join that organization?
Given their penchant for putting self before service, I doubt that many of them will be rushing down to join a "Civilian Reserve Corps" that has all the clarity of purpose that only the 1600 Crew can bring to a mission. For some reason, this just makes me think of a future veteran corps of Walter Sobchaks ("The Big Lebowski" if you've seen the movie, you get the reference, right?) sitting around talking about their experiences in whatever their version of "The Nam" is 20 years from now, because they escaped (or were forced) from Mom's basement and their pointless lives to do something worthwhile. As if.
Gee, maybe he'll talk about fighting AIDS in Africa too. Oh, wait, he did.
