Pete Buttigieg joined the military to seek career advancement. This is transparent and obvious. But he still joined. And he was still deployed. And swift boating that is bad and sharing the WSJs swift boating op ed is bad. /1
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(Once you start learning about this it's really striking how shameless this implicit class system is It's in the Geneva Convention - if a hostile nation takes a commissioned officer prisoner you can't give them any orders, it's inhumane)
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(You can make enlisted POWs work as long as you assign them work on an equitable basis to your own troops, and you can order NCO POWs to supervise them But commissioned officers don't take orders as POWs, it's part of respecting the sovereignty of the other nation)
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