DON’T ‘SON’ ME

Hitch delivers a spot-on retort to those who claim or seem to claim that those of us who are not actually in uniform or who do not have sons to send into battle are somehow illegitimate as commentators or supporters or critics of the effort. The whole ploy is ludicrous. We have a volunteer army, that is directed, as it should be, by civilians. The military is answerable to people who have no military experience, because it is answerable – and should be accountable – to a civilian democracy. This isn’t Burma or Cuba. The rest is cheap shots.