(August 26, 2018 at 2:18 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(August 26, 2018 at 1:24 pm)Minimalist Wrote: 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.
While the first sentence is, ironically, quite true, it does not solve the problem of the second sentence.
Even in WW2 lots of men served without ever leaving the states. As some wag once noted, for every man firing a rifle there are ten men driving a truck. Do we have to investigate the qualifications of truck drivers?
