I’m not that forgiving about a guy who wants to serve as Commander In Chief over the U.S. Armed Forces who avoided the service himself. I lost many friends in Vietnam, and I don’t want to hear Rudy Giuliani’s opinion on that war. I don’t trust him to lead America. Period. Go ahead and defend him if you want.
The same charge has been laid against Cheney. Given that virtually all the children the national elites avoided service during that war—a relative handful of Ivy league graduates were commisioned, compared with the thousands during WWII—I can’t single out Guilani for special blame. But, of course, sentiment sentiment, unique to all of us and in this matter none is more correct than another.