I've always felt that if you're going to be in charge of the worlds largest military machine that you should have spent some time in personally. And the time that you spent getting deferments and playing soldier in high school ROTC classes doesn't count. It seems like the guys who want to throw soldiers into the meat grinder the quickest are the ones who never had the possibility of being at the pointy end of the stick themselves.
Well, thats the key. Do you think someone like Trump or Ted Cruz could do that though? I get the feeling Hillary would have no problem sending the kids out either but she has actual international relations experience at least.
It's impossible to hold the high ground after you've gotten down into the mud yourself.
maybe they could build an ELEVATED mud pit, so they can say their mud pit is on higher ground.....rolleyes1
I might be "that guy" that did bring it up after a couple beers or something. I used to pester my Dad (a judge and Navy man and generally a really good, smart man) about his blind spot on Japanese internment. He used to acknowledge it was wrong, but kept saying "we were at war" and "you had to be there to understand the fear of invasion" and things like that. He did live through brown outs in Port Orchard, across from Bremerton Naval Shipyard, as high school kid, and lots of false alarms regarding the japanese coming for the west coast. But to me, it was always a blind spot he had in an otherwise very distinguished life and career. I guess fear will do that to you. And the propaganda machine back then was selling it. And though it may not be the same style of drawings of slant eyed yellow skinned caricatures, the same thing is being sold now. Leads to the stuff Mark is pointing out.
Morons. It just feeds the hate.
It ain't me. I ain't no senator's son.
