A: Because they might use them.
Read it and weep (from today's /Inside Higher Ed/):
While momentum is growing in Congress to pass a new GI Bill, adding
education benefits for a generation of veterans serving in Iraq, the
Pentagon and Bush administration are opposed. The reason? /The
Boston Globe/ reported that it is fear that better education
benefits would discourage those who have the option to leave from
re-enlisting. The /Globe/ quoted
<http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2008/02/10/gi_bill_falling_short_of_college_tuition_costs/>
Robert Clarke, assistant director of accessions policy at the
Department of Defense, as saying that "the incentive to serve and
leave" might with better education benefits "outweigh the incentive
to have them stay."
Chris
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Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
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http://www.yorku.ca/christo/
"Part of respecting another person is taking the time to criticise his
or her views."
- Melissa Lane, in a /Guardian/ obituary for philosopher Peter Lipton
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