During an appearance on Fox Business, Trump commented, "We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan. ... and they did. They stayed a little back, a little off the frontlines." But some of Trump's European critics are pointing out that when he was young during the 1960s and 1970s, he avoided military service. Scotland-based journalist/author Stephen Stewart, himself a veteran, argued, "Trump's comments are as offensive as they are inaccurate. It's hugely ironic that someone who allegedly dodged the draft for the Vietnam War should make such a disgraceful statement. He has desecrated the memory of hundreds of British soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan, people who we called friends and comrades. If he was a man of honor, he would get down on bended knees to ask forgiveness from the families of the fallen."