Wow. Here's a mind-blowingly elegant idea from Garrison Keillor that the US amend the Constitution to amend the constitution to require the President to have at least 2 years full-time military service. This would have sundry benefits, points out Keillor, including:

• a military that looks more like America
• presidents who aren't chicken hawks
• a world power that knows something about the world

While we have some obvious problems with the ineligibility of some groups for military service, the solution would seem to be to enable their eligibility, not to abandon this amendment idea. Dare to dream, Mr. Keillor...