I'm no Dan Rather fanboy, but I'll give him full credit for this:
'All of these people on television — some of whom I have enormous respect for — but it unsettles me to hear them say, listen, we, the United States, we have to, quote, "do something" in Ukraine, we have to do something in Syria, we have to do something in the waters around China, we have to do something about what's happening in Yemen, we have to do something in Iraq, we have to do something about ISIS, what they are talking about are combat operations. My first question to anyone who is on television saying, "We have to get tough, we need to put boots on the ground and we need to go to war in one of these places" is, I will hear you out if you tell me you are prepared to send your son, your daughter, your grandson, your granddaughter to that war of which you are beating the drums. If you aren't, I have no patience with you, and don't even talk to me.'
If you're willing to offer up other people's kids to fight in wars and police actions and "military interventions," then offer up your own, too. Hell, if I were the Constitutional Amendment-proposing kind, that'd make for a great one for Congress and the Administration.
(h/t +George Wiman)
Dan Rather To Hawkish Pundits: Send Your Kids To War Or ‘Don’t Even Talk To Me’ (VIDEO)
Dan Rather doesn’t want to hear you, the hawkish pundit who’s been all over cable news lately, tell us that the United States should “do something” in Iraq or Syria or Ukraine — not unless you’re willing to enlist your own kid first.
Agreed.