Stephen King: If you can't read 'Then you've got the Army, Iraq'

[RamboLiberal]

"I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that."

http://www.breitbart.tv/html/90023.html

[ORDagnabbit]

1. sadly its true...the army is now taking people with facial tattoos. n/t

[Lady-Damai]

2. Wow....

[galaxy21]

4. I think that;s why things like Abu Ghraib happen

I don't think anyone involved was educated, where they?

Not that 'educated' neccessarily means 'moral'. But I think anyone with a 3 digit IQ would have figured out that they weren't supposed to be doing that, and it was something they wouold get in serious trouble for.

[Feron]

7. I disagree.

Look at studies such as the Stanford Prison experiment or the Milgram experiment.

Even big brained intellectuals are fallible humans at their core.

[skooooo]

3. Use your brain, or be fodder.

Brave New World.

[Clear Blue Sky]

5. I wouldn't generalize...

Many excellent colleges and universities (including Ivy League schools) have ROTC programs and those folks can certainly read.

[alfredo]

6. If you are a felon or have a history of mental illness, the maybe the

Army is for you.

[aikoaiko]

8. He should stick to writing spooky tales and not ad libbing PSAs.

There are a lot worse economic choices than being in the Army for undereducated folks.