Just imagine if we applied this to every cause...Grendel wrote:Did you enlist or not ?
"I think we should do more to help the homeless!" "Have you built any shelters yet?"
"I think we should do more to secure the border!" "Did you join the minutemen?"
"I think we should lower taxes!" "Have you run for congress?"
"I think we should clean up the environment!" "Have you founded a startup to build low-emissions cars?"
I was reading a blog by a former soldier who tried to reenlist but was too old. He regularly had "anti-war" people criticize him for not being active service. One of his buddies who was active service and had just returned from Iraq became his co-blogger, and he got criticized for not currently being deployed. At one point, they published an e-mail about Iraq from a soldier who was in Afghanistan, and he got criticized for being on the wrong battlefield!
Pretty soon, we won't be allowed to have an opinion on any subject unless we're active military congressmen working for nonprofit corporations building biodiesel cars and revolutionizing economic theory while patrolling on the Mexican border and simultaneously fighting in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur, and North Korea.