I have received some really awesome email from vets and non vets alike about the G-File. One point, however, lost on some of the angrier emailers is the point that while I have as much of a “right” to judge as anybody else, the validity of the arguments supporting some judgments is obviously superior to others. At some level this is a linguistic point. If I’ve never served in combat, I’d better have a pretty good command of the facts and the principles involved before I think I can persuade anybody. But I have just as much a right to try. I do not believe that experience isn’t important or valuable. I simply think it doesn’t trump everything else. I would certainly value the opinion of John Keegan about what it was like to fight in WWI than I would John Kerry, John McCain or most — though perhaps not all — Vietnam vets. I don’t believe all opinions are equal and all judgments of identical value. How could I?