Clarence Thomas Wears Combat Boots?

This quote, from Aziz Huq’s analysis of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, pretty much says it all:

Ironically, Justice Thomas refers to Justice Stevens’ “unfamiliarity with the realities of warfare”; but Stevens served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1945, during World War II. Thomas’s official bio, by contrast, contains no experience of military service.

Sort of like how, on the one hand, we have a bunch of retired military officers opposed to the administration’s policies on torture, and on the other hand, we have notable non-veterans like Dick Cheney and David Addington insisting that their critics are unfamiliar with the “realities of warfare”…