Iqes, Is There a Skin in the Game?

Our political class, congressmen, senators, senior civil servants, diplomats, most of them did have sons in the military when world war too started up. They weren't always necessarily in infantry, but a lot em were. And that was actually kind of like the roman system. You remember, the romans had a fairly stratified society that to us almost was like it must be mean and oppressive somehow. But what they forget is many of them had to start as tribunes in the roman army, infantry or cavalry, or sometimes artillery. If you hacked people to death with the sword, come hell or high water,. You had what allowed you to run and rule over the ple