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Originally Posted by SSJup81
I'd personally find his years in the Senate more significant for the job as President than military, which to me, is irrelevant.
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Really? Senators serve for the perks, pay, and the paybacks. Most soldiers serve because they love their country, despite the low pay and the dangers involved in the job.
The military trains people in leadership. When you arrive for military training, you are taught to obey orders. In time, you begin to give orders. The first NCO course is called PLDC, or the "primary leadership development course". You are taught to react in difficult (insanely difficult at times) situations, and lead your men through each crisis.
As a soldier, people's lives depend on your choices, and people die when you make mistakes. If a senator makes a mistake, he merely has to apologize.
I guess General Washington's military experience was of no use when he became president, nor was Grant's, Roosevelt's, Grant's, Jackson's, Harrison's, Taylor's, Haye's, Garfield's, Pierce's, Johson's, Arthur's, Jefferson's, Madison's, Polk's, Monroe's, Kennedy's, McKinley's, Truman's, Ford's, Fillmore's, Tyler's, Lincoln's, Buchanan's, Carter's, Nixon's, or Bush's.
If you think that military experience is irrelevant to the presidency, then you are too ignorant to be trusted with a vote.