Who's supporting the troops now?

In sharp contrast to last week's Max Blumenthal's video of College Republicans coming up with ridiculous, minor medical conditions to excuse why they support the war but can't serve themselves, today we hear that Obama's foreign-policy adviser has been called up by the Naval Reserve.

Barack Obama is losing his top foreign-policy adviser to active military duty. Mark Lippert, who has helped to write every major Obama foreign-policy speech and is known as “an expert at nailing down details,” has been called up by the Naval Reserve. He’s in training now but says his orders don’t specify where or how long he’ll deploy. This will be the first tour for the lieutenant junior grade, who signed up for the Reserve about three years ago.

Take notice of the fact that Lippert, who has a master's from Stanford, signed up for the Reserve three years ago, while both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were raging.