[antiRepublicrat]

Um, for one thing, there are more poor people than there are presidents. Wars take a lot of people.

OTOH, some hundreds of years ago, the king actually rode into battle, and the sons of the nobility were expected to be officers in the army.

[Tublecane]

“OTOH, some hundreds of years ago, the king actually rode into battle, and the sons of the nobility were expected to be officers in the army.”

Heck, only some 200 years ago President Washington led troops into battle against his own people.