I am not the one calling people “Chicken Hawks” or disparaging elected officials who have not been in the military. That is a currently a specialty of the left. But only as long as Republicans are in power. When it’s one of “theirs” in office, a lack of military experience is never an issue. In fact, going to foreign countries and taking part in protests against the American military is just fine. But when a conservative who has not been in battle sends troops to war, suddenly they think having been shot should be a prerequisite for making that decision.

I am only asking for some intellectual honesty from the left. If they are going to criticize the political leadership for not being combat veterans, saying that their decisions are somehow illegitimate because they have not personally been in combat, then perhaps we need to examine that argument.

Personally I would have no problem with the argument Robert Heinlein made in his SciFi novel Starship Troopers; that only veterans should be allowed to vote or hold elective office. It’s funny that the lefties, who generally view the military with contempt, want to make a similar argument. But, if it’s going to be applied to the VP and the Sec Def, it should be applied to everyone.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.