Really? Who would you trust in Government:
Thomas Jefferson or Wesley Clark?
Give me two contemporaries: Thomas Jefferson or George Washington?
George Washington.
Give me some more contemporaries:
General Clark or Hillary Clinton?
Easy call: General Clark.
General Clark or John McCain?
Harder call.
General Clark or John Kerry?
Before the Swift Boat Veterans for truth revealed that Kerry's military record was mostly a tissue of lies, that would have still been an easy call: General Clark.
My point isn't that every Veteran is more qualified than everybody else. It is that Veterans share quite a bit in common: every one of them under the age of 50 self-selected at a young age for national service, took an oath to the Constitution. They have a higher general level of expertise and comprehension of security issues than the monopoly of lawyers who run both parties. They come from all walks of life, and are mostly middle class. They know how to follow laws, and how to cooperate with each other on a team.
You seem to suggest that a military background is not a particularly appropriate source of trust for power.
I would assert that in time of war, a military background is a higher qualification to be trusted with control of national security than any other background.
Just my opinion, of course.