I think it’s important that anyone involved in public policy, especially international policy, get to know some members of the armed forces and listen to their perspectives on policy issues. At the very least, there’s a whole lot of foreign policy implementation that is actually done by those men and women, regardless of where the responsibility might technically lie. There’s much more to be said about the topic (and, as we have learned from our ethics class, it is important to treat people as ends, and not as mere means), but I’ll leave it there for tonight.