Telegraph: Obama Wanted To Join Military?

Barack Obama has said he considered joining the United States military when he left school but decided not to because the Vietnam war was over and "we weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point".

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[Lee Troxler]

Reading this audacious little bit from Obama brings to mind a passage from Obama Unmasked:

As liberals go, Obama is fairly solicitous of our fighting men and women. Only once in the primary campaign did he slip and say something unguarded, something causing people to wonder what he really thinks:
"We've got to get the job done there [in Afghanistan] and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there."
So far in the campaign, Obama has been forgiven this accusation, though we don’t really understand why. It is wrong on all counts. And it reminds us of a similar accusation another liberal Senator made once about the conduct of our U.S. military:
“…they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam…’
This was John Kerry speaking about Vietnam. When he made these anti-military comments in 1971, just as when Obama makes his own anti-military comments now, our enemies figure we must be weak and divided, so they redouble their efforts against us. It also gives them ideas about what will inflame U.S. public opinion, so they learn quickly how to replicate “horrific” acts and shine the mirror of guilt in our direction.
When we hear our liberal politicians slandering and maliciously skewering our troops, we assume it is for their own selfish agenda—that is, to get elected at any price.
Neither what our enemies are hearing, or what we’re hearing, is a recommendation for Obama.