(August 26, 2018 at 1:24 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(August 26, 2018 at 12:40 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: There is something to be said for having a commander in Chief who may send men to die who has had the experience of being sent to die.
The problem there is that you then require a limitless string of wars to keep your C-in-C with battlefield experience.
Besides, how do you account for someone like Lindsey Graham? Sure, he was an "officer" in the Judge Advocate's office and he spent his active duty career in Germany defending, most notably, pilots accused of using marijuana. There is no bigger warmonger in the Senate than Graham but exactly where is his experience of being sent to die?
A limitless string of wars is something the peace loving US of A, almost uniquely in the world, has never been in want of.
I didn’t say any wearing of uniform will do. I said know what it is to be sent to die.
