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Shaking my head. The military spends 35 years destroying QOL on installations and disincentivizing Soldiers from seeking their entertainment on post and now they want to turn it around overnight with a mall entertainment complex? Let me guess - AAFES hasn't been making enough money screwing Soldiers in the PX/BX so now they want to see if they can increase revenue through licensing commercially successful enterprises to operate on base? I hope the commercial enterprises read the contract fine print carefully; AAFES has a phenomenal track record WRT partnering with industry - NOT! Well - except for Burger King and they survive because there isn't much competition. (NTM AAFES fails even faster when they try to do it without commercial partners.) God forbid they ever get their hands on the commissary.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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