McCain Lacks the Character to Be a Good President (Support Our Troops Edition)
Mirabile visu, a Washington Post editorial that isn't an affront to decency and sanity:
Thanking Our GIs: TO DATE, 56 senators and more than 200 representatives have signed on to legislation to revamp GI educational benefits. They recognize that the men and women fighting today's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are not getting their due. But if Congress is serious about doing right by America's veterans, it has to do more than come up with a list of names....
Impetus for the bill comes from Sen. James Webb (D-Va.)... [who] rightly argue[s] that post-Sept. 11 veterans are being shortchanged by a system... that has not kept pace with increased college costs.... [Webb's] bill... would be true to the original GI bill... in providing a cost-free education to those who serve in the military....
Disappointingly, Sen. John McCain... declines to back the measure... responding to concerns of the military brass that enhanced educational opportunities could negatively affect retention rates....
The bill is not cheap; cost estimates range from $2 billion to $4 billion a year. But... this should be considered part of the cost of war -- and an obligation that the nation should gratefully fulfill.
