[Vaquero]

No military service, no vote, no public office, no job paid with taxpayer dollars. Worked for Sparta, worked for Rome

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I might agree for WW2 vets. I respect and thank all vets....but there hasn’t been a war fought to win since WW2. Wars are fought to fight them. Jeeze it took Obama to get get Bin Laden.

[RedStateRocker]

I think the underlying ethos: if you aren’t willing to risk your life for your country, why should you have an opportunity to lead it or get paid by it?

FWIW, I desperately tried to join the Army and the Marines, but had an ear infection as a kid that left me partially deaf (however I’d do basic and a tour of any hell-hole they’d send me even at 56 if it meant being able to vote).

[arthurus]

I think OBL was killed at Tora Bora. The Chinese and the Indians thought so at the time and nothing that came from OBL after that was actually attributed to him by the audio experts. The authorities just let the MSM make their own assumptions and did not deny them.