>>>Honor where honor is due, but no more than that - I'd actually prefer to keep the soldiers out of politics, even when they retire.
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>>With that attitude, we should have never elected....hmmm....lets see....George Washington, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Jackson, Millard Fillmore, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Grant, Rutherford Hayes, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, or John Kennedy.
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>Hey, just a preference, based on bad experience. You were lucky, then.

Hard to compare the Serbian experience with the American, I agree. But we weren't lucky. You see, military experience, especially under duress, gives a candidate a sense of how to be a leader. Sometimes it teaches the wrong lessons, for example, look at Grant's presidency. But more often it's a good thing.