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I think Risk is probably better military experience.
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I am looking for a President that was born in a bank or at a construction site because the economy and the housing crisis are important issues to me. Also, what did you grandfather do for a living?
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He is still alive. He is a really nice guy, but he smokes incessantly. Why do you ask?
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Yes. Equating 20 years of military service and 20 years of Armed Services Cmte service with a game of Stratego does make a point. Not the one you mean, though.
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His point, which you are totally ignoring, is a valid one. To what extent would John McCain be a better commander in chief than Obama? Bush was in the military too. Did that make him a great commander in chief? Reagan also was (despite the fact that you said he wasn't). He was in the cavalry (seriously) and wound up making movies for the army while in service. I honestly would have thought you would have known that about your hero. Was it his army experience that led him to "greatness" as a commander in chief? The point is that being in the military, in and of itself, doesn't make you qualified to be commander in chief or mean you will be a great commander in chief. There are some experiences that prepare you better than others and that are better predictors than others. McCain fought in active duty. That seems more relevant to me than Bush's service in the national guard, which seems more relevant to me than making movies in the cavalry. But is McCain "highly qualified" as you contest? If he is, it has nothing to do with being born on a military base or being related to soldiers. It also has nothing to do with serving on a committee which, Triplet has pointed out, focuses on military pensions and not on combat troop movements or strategy. We should also be careful not to conflate military service with "foreign affairs experience." One involves combat, the other involves negotiations and politics, though they do overlap in some ways. I think you and Triplet are talking past each other in some ways. He is asking what makes McCain "highly qualified" to be commander in chief. You are responding with answers that may indicate a general familiarity with the military, but in no way indicate a sound knowledge of how a president should utilize the military in the field of foreign affairs. We all respect McCain's service in the military (at least, I hope we all do), but that doesn't resolve the issue as to how he would act as president. Perhaps even more important is to ask why we should care if he is "highly qualified" to be a commander in chief if the manners in which he indicates he would use our military in foreign affairs would be disastrous (even if a highly qualified disaster). Last edited by Cali Coug; 04-03-2008 at 07:33 PM. |
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