The Souther Poverty Law Center is reporting "large numbers of potentially violent neo-Nazis, skinheads and other white supremacists are now learning the art of warfare in the armed forces."
Ten years after a scandal over neo-Nazis in the armed forces, extremists are once again worming their way into a recruit-starved military. The Intelligence Project uncovers how white supremacists are using military training to prepare for their own wars at home.
This story was also reported today in the
New York Times.
"We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," the group quoted a Defense Department investigator as saying in a report. "That's a problem."
The report quotes Scott Barfield, a Defense Department investigator, saying, "Recruiters are knowingly allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join the armed forces, and commanders don't remove them from the military even after we positively identify them as extremists or gang members."
This is another glaring example of our military sacrificing decency for their desperate recruitment needs. Meanwhile, gays and lesbians are still prohibited from serving openly.
If and when this war does end, we as a nation are going to be "shocked and awed" by the level of degradation in the US military. We'll potentially have gangs trained in combat by our own military, most of whom will have additional mental impairments from their experiences in Iraq.
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