If they walked through the door, with them would be Secret Service agents along to protect them from being kidnapped and held hostage, being taken and tortured(including raped) on video, ditto having their heads chopped off, or being assassinated on the spot, because of who their parents are and what they mean to America. Wake up. So they could just join the military and bop over to serve in Iraq??? I don't think so. In fact, I KNOW not so.
So the children of the rich and famous now get an automatic pass?
If we had a draft, they don't have to go because it's "too dangerous"?
Every service man and woman in Iraq is in danger of being "kidnapped and held hostage, being taken and tortured(including raped) on video, ditto having their heads chopped off, or being assassinated on the spot", and Jenna and Chelsea - should they choose to serve - would just have to take their chances along with everybody else.
Wake up. So they could just join the military and bop over to serve in Iraq??? I don't think so. In fact, I KNOW not so.
And you know this how? In America military service - and requests for hazardous duty - by the children of prominent politicians and upper-class families was until recently a point of honor in such circles.
Probably the most famous example is that of James Roosevelt - the eldest son of President Franklin Roosevelt - who repeatedly requested such assignments and received both a Navy Cross and Army Silver Star for heroism in separate engagements, and who I doubt expected deluxe hotel accommodations if captured by the Japanese. And this sort of sacrifice was typical of the period; there was nothing unusual about a rich and prominate family such as Joseph Kennedy’s losing one son in the AAF over Europe in nearly losing another in the Pacific - it’s only in the last generation or so that it’s become fashionable to pursue “other priorities” while other people’s children do the fighting.
And if a Bush or Clinton daughter decided to enlist, you can be sure that the US military would handle it just fine – they would check their Secret Service Agents at the gate, and the military would bend over backwards to see that they were treated... just like everyone else.