Are Our Kids Too Fat To Become The Hired Killers Of The Future?

A group of retired military officers has identified perhaps the most disturbing repercussion of our national obesity epidemic thus far: School lunches are making the youth of today so fat that they are unfit for military service, which makes the issue a threat to national security.

Noted former Joint Chiefs chair Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, “Since 1995, the proportion of recruits who failed their physical exams because they were overweight has risen by nearly 70 percent. We need to reverse this trend, and an excellent place to start is by improving the quality of food served in our schools,” where students are estimated to receive 40% of their daily calories. While it is indeed worrisome that our high-calorie lunches might prevent the dull-eyed, sexting youth of today from becoming the IED fodder of tomorrow, remember this: Predator drones always stay trim. If a couple of extra villages need to be bombed accidentally because our kids are too tubby to pull the trigger face to face, it’s probably a small price to pay. I mean, on our part. The people in the mistakenly bombed villages probably have a different opinion.