...''the problem,'' as you refer to it, has little to do with uniforms. Although I will say that considering the location of the Olympics and the security precautions they're taking, maybe uniforms made of Kevlar with a more para-military look would be in order. And boots. I'm sure Homeland Security could help us out with a little something from their closets.
No, the problem I'm referring to is the one where our government has allowed the outsourcing of critical industries directly related to our national security, not just the economy in-general (thanks NAFTA!).
Ironically, one of the countries we've outsourced so many of the things we used to do to -- and is also the one to whom we're now gravelly financially indebted -- while we nonetheless continue to berate them and challenge them militarily, as we speak, and are they same ones whose microchips and other electronic hardware which supports a myriad of our defense applications were approved for purchase by Congress. And now it's uniforms. Truth is, we can't trust that either will work. The millions upon millions of counterfeit microchips and electronic parts are riddled throughout the military's defense systems and we don't know whether they can be hacked and/or disabled -- at just the right time. Or, it's just more crap, like the melamine.
I'll go with this as being a more important problem. The one with graver consequences. Oh, and Voltaire had a point. However:
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - John F. Kennedy
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