Remember that Trump received five deferments to avoid military service during the Vietnam War: four on academic grounds and one on medical grounds, and he didn’t go to war, being the fine patriot that he is. There should be a law stipulating that if a country goes to war, its president and his children are obliged to fight on the battlefield; otherwise, all the countries in the world can attack it freely.

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I get your point, but fwiw that war was a war to be avoided. I do think politicians should have skin in the game, but I also would do whatever I could to prevent my son from fighting an unjust war.