John Kerry has apologized for his "botched" joke that called our
troops in Iraq dumb, but Rosa Brooks still wants to know: Was Kerry right? Her LA [TIMES] column shows that, in fact, the military is more educated than the general public. But, equally as important, children of parents who make more than $60,000 a year are pretty much nonexistent in the military. She notes researchers have found that "as the percentage of veterans serving in the executive branch and the legislature increases, the probability that the United States will initiate militarized disputes declines by nearly 90%." Her advice: "Draft Congress!" <
-- from SLATE. -- Jim Devine / "Mathematicians are like [Germans]: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something [much more profound]." -- [Jean Loupallée] von Goethe
