Should the Pentagon offer new recruits an option to finish post-active-duty military obligations in the Peace Corps, rather than the reserves? It was a question ready made for commentary by Colman McCarthy, former Washington Post columnist and now director of the Center for Teaching Peace. He’s 100 percent behind the idea. In an op-ed in Sunday’s Post, McCarthy even denigrates anti-military “elitists” who would bar the door to the Peace Corps ranks. Why? He thinks that the partnership will shake Peace Corps funding from the Pentagon’s “money tree.”
In a dramatic flare-up in the hostilities between the U.S. and Iran, American forces struck and destroyed five Iranian oil tankers Sept. 8, U.S. Central Command said. Iran retaliated by lobbing ballistic missiles toward a major U.S. base in Jordan, according to Iranian state media.
