Interesting article.
Allow me to build a squad of the five brightest students from MIT and Caltech and promise them patrols on the highways connecting Baghdad and Fallujah, and I’ll bet that in six months they could render IED’s about as effective as a “Just Say No” campaign at a Grateful Dead show.
Right. First, this shows the inability of this guy to understand how to apply intelligence. These kids could save more lives in laboratories, behind computers, or in the intelligence department than out there, crawling among roads with tweezers.
Second, BLAM! You just lost the kid who's going to cure cancer, and the kid who's going to give the world free energy from fusion to the raghead with fundamentalism and opium in his blood, in a war started by utter idiots in the government for no good reason. Nice!
The really smart people wouldn't be caught dead fighting a war even if it meant prison time. In fact, among some there's an informal taboo on working in the defense industry--they can see the futility of war and value of human life without shit hitting the fan. It's called extrapolating the consequences, and it's something this fucking administration should have done if it had the capacity to do so.
Where we could really use some bright minds is in the government. Alas, they are preoccupied with science, technology, and the future, and have little interest in dirt-slinging, counting the corporate campaign contributions, and sucking the dick of dumb conservative Christian groups.
