| Emeraldkity, the thing about military recruiters is that it isn't simply a "political" thing. I'm a liberal Democrat, but I'm okay with military recruiters talking to my kids; I'd even be okay with one of them enlisting, if that's what they wanted to do (although I'm sure I'd have some sleepless nights.) But my wife, who's far less overtly politically oriented than I, and in many ways far more conservative, goes into full-fledged crazed Mama Bear mode if the subject of her kids and the military ever comes up. She has literally chased recruiters from our house, torn up military-oriented mail addressed to our kids, and has announced in a manner which no one would question that if a draft was initiated she would move to Canada and take our kids with her.
You don't mess with that kind of maternal instinct. And I think that, coupled with an unpopular, lengthy, unwinnable and and politically tinged war which no one remembers the reason for our being in in the first place, makes people just a little bit less than reasonable when it comes to the subject of recruiters trying to encourage little Johnnie (or Suzie) to sign up for a tour of duty. Or maybe its not so unreasonable after all. People want to protect their children . |