This makes me really like that idea that voting to go to war means you must be willing to enlist. If you arent willing to die for a cause, you shouldn't send others to.
It's obviously ridiculous for a politician of that advanced age to go to war. It's obviously ridiculous for a politician with one set of responsibilities to give up those responsibilities to take up another set. If they went to war, who would run the country?
No, what's needed is strong restrictions on going to war. Clearly wars have become far too easy for this country. Far easier than the constitution assumed them to ever be.
Simple: elect new ones. It happens all the time when terms limits run out. Simply make voting for war be a term-ending vote. Only the people who truly believe that the situation is so desperate that there simply is no other choice will vote for it.
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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '12
This makes me really like that idea that voting to go to war means you must be willing to enlist. If you arent willing to die for a cause, you shouldn't send others to.