Why We Suck at War

Sully and I have discussed many a time why America has not really won a war since World War II. I think I've figured it out. Back in the first part of the century, when the United States still had a strongly agriculture- and manufacturing-based economy, the boys we sent to war were like this:

Now the people we send are more like this:

America's service economy has created generations of sissies.  The army is not made up of a solid core of tough soldiers but of a few good men among misguided people who could barely graduate high school (check out this story for more information).  In my opinion, we need to send over the original doughboys - Idaho farmers and Detroit manufacturing workers.  We need to send the FFA and the AFL-CIO to Iraq.  And forget all the complicated computers and weaponry.  We need to give each of them a six shooter and a sledge hammer.  Then we just need to send some guy from a Ford factory in with a fork lift to clean it all up.  That's my military strategy.  And that's why I'm not president.