No Thanks

For me, the money shot of last night's STU speech was when Bush talked about the Civilian Reserve Corps:

A second task we can take on together is to design and establish a volunteer Civilian Reserve Corps. Such a corps would function much like our military reserve. It would ease the burden on the Armed Forces by allowing us to hire civilians with critical skills to serve on missions abroad when America needs them. It would give people across America who do not wear the uniform a chance to serve in the defining struggle of our time.

Pan to the Chiefs of Staff- nothing. Not even a courtesy clap. Turns out the army isn't super keen on the whole mercenary thing. You know, after all those Blackwater horror stories we've been hearing about. And speaking as a civilian, I have to say, I'm not very interested in being part of this particular "defining struggle". Gold Rush, maybe. Iraq, not so much. Thanks, though.