Here’s a stupid question:

“President Bush, if your own two daughters won’t enlist, how can you expect anyone else’s children to join the military?”

This is like the idiocy of Michael Moore demanding the same thing of Bill O’Reilly. It presupposes that “children” join the military, and fantasizes that this happens because parents “send” them. Surely this formulation helps play into the little passion play we’re seeing down in Crawford right now, but it has no correspondence to reality. In this country, adults join the military, and they do so voluntarily. Many (indeed, most) of them have parents, but this is presumably a choice made by those adults, and not the parents, so this whole notion of “sending our children to war” is nonsensical.

Does he really expect the president to order Jenna and Barbara to enlist? If not, what’s his point? This isn’t about “people’s children” joining the military–it’s about people joining the military who happen (on occasion) to have parents. But that reality apparently doesn’t jerk the heartstrings as much.