"Again -- why would someone opposed to militarism care if a militarist served in the military? I can see the critique from a class angle (and saw it early on when I was in uniform), but not from an "anti-war" position."
I may not believe in proscribing extra-marital sex; but I have the right to criticize a right-winger who does proscribe it and then engages in it.
I may not support the war in Iraq; but I have the right to point to the hypocrisy of those who are willing to sacrifice the lives of thousands of people when they themselves ran the other way and when they themselves are creating this war only in order to personally profit by it.
Joanna