The whole military service requirement would only work if our military functioned Constitutionally. As far as I'm concerned, anyone willing to throw their life away to fight for Zion is no wiser or more qualified to discern than the 18 year old gangbaner.
Have you ever considered that in a relatively short time elected officials who supported war in the middle east (or anywhere not directly posing a threat to the US) would be phased out if only veterans voted?
The whole reason we have these wars in the middle east is because idiots who never had to actually serve in the military had a say in what the military did. Most veterans are not anti-war, but most I have met agree that every war since WWII was a pointless war. And the only reason they think that the world wars were not pointless is because they were not veterans before those wars started.
And the only reason the idiots who never served can start those wars in the first place is because of those in the service who obeyed even though the orders are plainly unconstitutional.
Forgive me if I'm not thrilled with the idea of handing the reigns exclusively to the group who has served as the mailed fist of Zion for decades.
That is not how military service works. You do what you are told regardless of whether or not you agree with it, soldiers are not constitutional lawyers and should not be expected to be. There are limits of course, but in a general sense if the order has come down from the highest levels you follow it or you shouldn't have signed up in the first place.
(post is archived)