I didn't realize Elizabeth Warren was so pro-military. Did you guys?

[Victor_c3]

16. I realize that this is something that I'm probably overly sensitive to, but I don't like the term

"pro-military" being used to describe anyone for voting to spend money frivolously on military programs and who has family who has served in the military.

As a veteran, I'd consider myself to be very pro-military. It certainly doesn't mean that I'd send troops into wars that have nothing to do with our actual defense and it also doesn't mean that I'd vote to waste money on military programs that we don't need.

A different term needs to be come up with that doesn't make it so easy for people to point to the left and say "See there! They hate America!!".

And since when did the fact that a politician has direct family members in the military become a thing to scorn? If anything, that would make them look at potential military action a little more carefully before committing troops to a fight. I would argue that the willingness of the America public to send our troops so willingly into Iraq was precisely because so few people actually have skin in the game. Had more politicians actually had sons and daughters in the military in positions where they would actually see combat, I bet that Iraq would have never happened.