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14-12-10, 21:43
'US army recruits criminals for wars'

The US army recruits whoever is willing to sign up, including criminals, and this has raised the number of cases of sexual assault within the military, an analyst says.


“We are taking in all sorts of people, who have no business serving in uniform; people who have been convicted of violent crimes; people who are used to run around in gangs and things like this,” author and political commentator Mark Glenn said in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday.

The US military is taking anyone, who walks through the door, which just adds to the danger facing women (soldiers), he added.

Glenn attributed the problem especially to the moral and spiritual deterioration of American society over the course of the last three generations.

He argued that “the US military is suffering from very serious public relations setbacks,” and that the failure in the Iraq and Afghan wars are exacerbating the situation.

The US military needs plenty of young people for its wars in the Middle East and “they do not want any bad publicity hitting the news at this time because it makes recruitment all the more difficult,” he added.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Service Women's Action Network have filed a lawsuit against Pentagon for refusing to release records of sex crimes within the US military.

According to the lawsuit, tens of thousands of service members have reported some form of sexual assault in the past decade. The lawsuit also claims the government prosecutes only eight percent of sex offenders in the military.

YouTube - Press TV's Saeed Pour Reza talks to Mark Glenn on US Sexual Trauma