Gary Boren’s Brilliant Idea
Former City Councilman Gary Boren was guest hosting Robert Pratt’s radio show today while Pratt is on vacation / suspension / whatever. He remarked that he wished we could force prisoners into the army to go fight in Iraq for us. He prefaced this remark by saying that it might sound “extreme Right Wing.” You don’t say, Gary.
Felons, by committing crimes, have already demonstrated that they don’t deserve the full trust of our society. If you, as a soldier, can’t trust your buddy next to you in the foxhole, then you’re screwed.
It’s bad enough that we have a large mercenary fighting force — somewhere in the tens of thousands — fighting many of our battles. It’s worse still to consider using prisoners to fight our wars.
With brilliant ideas like that, I hope Boren doesn’t have aspirations for higher office.
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