I was greatly disappointed when I walked across the Corporate Tire Bridge at Brock University this morning and noticed a very large military recruitment poster hanging from the window encouraging students to join the armed forces. First off, under no circumstances should the armed forces be attempting to recruiting students on a university campus. The university is a place to learn and gain a future, not to be sidetracked by a flashy looking recruitment poster only to find yourself fighting in Afghanistan, where it's time to kill or be killed. Not the greatest of options, if you ask me.
Canada's military is currently engaged in WAR in Afghanistan, and not a peace keeping mission as many people are under the impression they are. Canadian soldiers will be in Afghanistan until early 2009 as result of Canada's war-hawk Conservative MPs and a few more hawkish Liberals, who voted to extend the mission by two years in mid 2006. The Tories plowed this legislation through the House. There is no clear strategy, exit plan, or measure of success. Of course, we shouldn't be there in the first place. If there's one thing that history has taught us, it's that imperial wars are inherently bad.
As a result of the fact that any new recruits to the armed forces will of course be trained to fight and kill and will likely find themselves serving in Afghanistan, I cannot help but be opposed to the university allowing military recruitment on campus.
But I guess the administration has taken a similar view to General Brock: 'Surgite!'
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