Complaining...as usual!

So, yesterday as I was watching CNN getting ready for work I see this new multi million dollar recruiting center the Army has introduced in Philadelphia. The Army exceeded its recruitment goal last year but felt the need to construct this 13 million dollar recruiting center that uses virtual reality and video games to recruit soldiers. In these economic times, why would they opt to spend that amount of money? Especially when they are meeting their recruiting goals without it?! If the Army has that kind of money laying around, why not put it towards improving living conditions in base housing or developing better family support centers. In a time when many soldiers are away from their families for a year or more, wouldn't ensuring the well being of the families left behind be more of a priority? When families are well taken care of at home, soldiers have fewer worries and are safer while deployed. Rather than focusing on what is going on at home, they can rest assured their family is being taken care of and focus on their mission. I just don't understand such opulence.

On the same day, as I was driving to work, I hear a discussion on NPR regarding the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. I think this is a step in the right direction. Did we really think we could keep these people prisoner forever? It is a flagrant violation of the Constitution to continue to keep these people detained without charging them with a crime. Move them to federal prisons, allow them access to attorneys, and charge them with an crime or let them go. Americans would be outraged if Americans were being held in a detention camp for this period of time without access to an attorney and without being charged with a crime.

Okay, stepping down from my soapbox.