As someone who is both too young to have lived through the Vietnam era and also a foreigner who has lived in a bicameral parliamentary system where the position of President and her role as commander in chief is mostly a ceremonial one, I have always utterly failed to understand this fascination Americans have with their politicians - even the female ones - being these really macho characters who must have, as a part of their qualifications, a large cock with which they can slap foreigners at will.
The cock slap must be something the aspiring politicians should have done during their obligatory stint in the military and must profess to being totally committed to doing it again so that it may aid God’s blessing of America as the greatest country on Earth.
I don’t fucking understand. I really don’t.
Who gives a damn about the Vietnam war. It was a misguided adventure that should be laid to rest and have absolutely no role to play in our politics today - except if you were someone like John Kerry who saw the horrors of war and came away bearing the question of how you ask someone to be the last man to die for a mistake.
If you were in Vietnam and all you took away from it was that America should go back for seconds and start other pointless wars around the world, get the fuck off the stage.
Furthermore, I wish someone would explain to me why being a member of the armed forces, an organization where you’re essentially brainwashed into following and falling into line a good training for someone who wishes to lead the country which is to say, essentially manage the largest bureaucracy in the world.
If you had to pick a CEO for the largest company on Earth with revenues in the Trillions and Millions of employees. Would you pick a drill sergeant or a basketball coach for the job? …or would you make sure your candidate went to the best damn MBA school in the world and had experience running other companies successfully?
