Targeted military recruitment failed among Brooklyn Arab-Americans who opposed the Iraq war.

Evidence

The military advertises regularly in Arab-American community newspapers in Brooklyn, as do independent military contractors (in fact, I regularly receive mail solicitations from both). The military ads promise “quick advancement in rank” if you speak Arabic and private contractors offer “up to $160,000/year” with a small line on the bottom of the ad that reads, “All work to be performed in Iraq.” The war is almost universally unpopular among the Arab-American community in Brooklyn, and there have been few takers. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1074

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the chapter on Omar’s cousin Ismail being recruited and the larger pattern of targeting Arab-Americans for military service.
• SHARE: The $160k/year Iraq-contractor ad with the buried ‘All work to be performed in Iraq’ line is a sharp specific detail worth sending to someone interested in war economy recruitment.