Can I Get A Veteran?
Daniel K. Asaka, James N. Inhofe, Edward Kennedy, John McCain, Bill Nelson, Pat Roberts and Jeff Sessions.
These men all have two things in common:
#1: They all served in the United States Military.
#2: They are all serving on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Let me do some quick math for you. Their are are twenty-two senators on the Senate armed services committee, which means that there are twice as many non-veterans as veterans. Of the twenty-two committee members, only two (Daniel Asaka and John McCain) have seen combat. When a four-star general tells the committee that he needs X billion dollars to finance X weapons system, how many committee members have the military experience and insight to ask the right questions and make an informed decision? Few. Too few.
One of the major problems with our country is the ever-widening gap of the liberal civilian elite and the conservative military. The blindness that ambitious, elite Americans have to their duty of national defense will have long reaching consequnces. If the problem is not solved, the number of veterans in government will decrease, even as veterans in the population increase.
The time has come for bright, patriotic Americans of this generation, liberal and conservative, to understand what it means to serve a country in a time of war. Only then can our leaders lead; and only then will their country follow.
These men all have two things in common:
#1: They all served in the United States Military.
#2: They are all serving on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Let me do some quick math for you. Their are are twenty-two senators on the Senate armed services committee, which means that there are twice as many non-veterans as veterans. Of the twenty-two committee members, only two (Daniel Asaka and John McCain) have seen combat. When a four-star general tells the committee that he needs X billion dollars to finance X weapons system, how many committee members have the military experience and insight to ask the right questions and make an informed decision? Few. Too few.
One of the major problems with our country is the ever-widening gap of the liberal civilian elite and the conservative military. The blindness that ambitious, elite Americans have to their duty of national defense will have long reaching consequnces. If the problem is not solved, the number of veterans in government will decrease, even as veterans in the population increase.
The time has come for bright, patriotic Americans of this generation, liberal and conservative, to understand what it means to serve a country in a time of war. Only then can our leaders lead; and only then will their country follow.
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