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In virtually dead the author makes a mess of her grammar because she wants to make a charge this not true and can't stand it, she says the army funded the game to:
to interest kids as young as 13 to join the Army
The army can get kids as young as 17 to join; it can interest kids as young as 13 "in joining" [and why not as young as 3?], but it can't have that causitive effect on 13 year-olds.
Surely the author knows this since I've never meet native speakers who misuse the cuasitive or who don't know when the gerundive follows the infinit [and surely there is no one single copy editor alive who can't follow this]. But the truth would be less sinister.
I started reading Salon when it was a well-writen site, backed by good politics. But it's become a badly written cite that excuses every excess in the name of good politics.
