There are countless obstacles standing in the way of expansive troop withdrawals from Iraq, and now there's one more to add to the list.
Thanks to the slowing economy, there might not be enough jobs for soldiers returning to civilian life, a problem which could create far-reaching social complications by pushing already cash-strapped social service programs to their breaking point.
Returning from combat is inexpressibly difficult without tacking on the whole limited-prospects-for-the-future thing. This stands to illustrate a truism demonstrated by the
Bush administration; if people who resent government are put in charge of it, they will break the entire system practically in its entirety whether they mean to or not.
Bush didn't set out to leave the people who serve in the American armed forces out in the cold; he lacks the analytical capacity to see how his poor judgment exercised issue by issue would add up to a calamity that will reverberate for a century in ways so numerous and far-reaching as to be impossible to expect or fully predict.
Not that it takes a whole lot of processing power to understand that tens of thousands of troops coming home to a shrinking (at worst) or stagnant (at best) economy would be benefit
anybody. But that's just pointing out the obvious.
