re: #25 lostlakehiker

It’s the call of duty. You know you’re in for it. But why do people volunteer for the military? Yeah, it’s a job, but as a job, well, the caliber of people the military gets can’t be hired for those kinds of wages and working conditions in the civilian sector.

He thought he could do some good. Maybe he thought wrong; it’s possible with the best of intentions to make a mess of things. Other well-intentioned men have fallen flatter, e.g. Neville Chamberlain. But that’s another debate for another day.

Obama is doing a great job. Is it some kind of sin to say that?