The wusses at NRO are letting the weasel off the hook.
I enjoy much of the commentary at NRO. But the truth is, most of the writers there are elitists too. We might consider them benign elitists, because they don't indulge in Kerry-style animosity toward military service. But most of them are elitists nonetheless, educated at elite universities, accustomed to thinking and sharing superior thoughts with other superior thinkers like themselves.
The soldier considered a blue collar, lower-thinking species by the elitist swells, regardless of party affiliation. Soldiers are to many among the conservative elite what blacks are to the liberal elite; a group to pat on its collective head and admonish: "Tut, tut! Don't be so excitable!"