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Friday, May 03, 2002
 
War Is Tough on the Hookers Too

Chances are you saw this story already on Instapundit. It talks about a bunch of US soldiers on leave in Australia. The cat houses were so busy they had to close down for a day because of all the work they were doing. My question is what would all of these soldiers have done if they just returned straight to America? Surely the ones with wives and girlfriends are not cavorting with the prostitutes. Do we send all of our men through Australia so they can work out their frustrations before we bring them back to the US? Why isn't there a general uproar about the Army putting our men in situations which greatly increases their chances of bringing communicable - and maybe even deadly - diseases back to the mainland. Surely syphilis, gonorrhea, and AIDS are far greater and more real threats to the American populace than the more sinister sounding anthrax.