"And I actually always thought of the military as an ennobling and, you know, honourable option. But keep in mind that I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it's not an option that I ever decided to pursue."
There was this thing called the Cold War...maybe you heard of it.
Massive, expansionist empire that murdered millions of its own.
The US military was central in holding it behind its own Iron Curtain.
Of course for someone running with Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers that probably seems like a bad thing to your type.