Okay, I'll say it out loud

Pretty much the only people who are saying this out loud are insensitive asshole intolerant pricks, but there's some genuine truth in it, some non-assholic truth. That is this: is it really heroic to get caught by the enemy? Nobody thought it was heroic when McCain was in the bottom 10% of his graduating class, but once he uses that (lack of) knowledge in the battle field and gets captured, did that suddenly make him Presidential material? Really?

 

Maybe the reason why our country is continuously dragged into unnecessary and unpopular wars is because we keep electing warmongers and military brutes as our commanders-in-chief. What if we elected a diplomatic genius instead, who saw standing down as a more powerful option than killing anyone who disagrees with us?