Can't We Just Die at War, in Peace?

We appear to be in a debacle; military spending is being reduced in wartime. Military.com just released this article regarding the debate between the only real options: cut troops or cut pay. Both options suck.

Both options suck, not only because I'm a pro-war radical Tomahawk with a chip on my shoulder, but also because, quite simply, the military is one of the most advantageous business opportunities open to today's young people. No, seriously. With the unemployment situation the way it is (9.2% in September), even for college graduates, the military provides an opportunity unique in its simultaneous capability of universal availability and relative prestige. Most professions cannot compare with the absurd benefits offered by the U.S. military, and, in the most superficial statement I've made in quite some time, joining the military is quite the resumé builder. The military is and has been the steam valve on the pressure cooker that is the modern job market. 

Reducing military spending for a war opposed by many in a nation with a massive national debt is a popular political concept for obvious reasons. But in an economy in which you baby boomers have simultaneously handed my generation the largest monetary debt in the history of the world and given us a crappy job market with which to pay it back, you're now eliminating or painfully manipulating one of the most secure opportunities we have available. Come on, can't you just let us die at war, in peace?