Part of the trouble that so many in the US don't understand any war lasting more than a week or two, is that they were born in the last part of the Boomer generation and later. The ME Generation. Everything Right Now, Instantly, Thank You Very Much.
The Boomer Generation was borm from 1946-1964.
So many of these people have always had the older generation to do things for them....to win the wars...to go to battle....to live within their means, etc. The later Boomers and forward people in many cases are very narsistic in so many ways. Tiny little thing, but sorta says it all...How many Thank You notes are received by this generation? How many RSVP's are replied to (before two days of the event?)
And yet, with gratefulness, there is a part of this later generation, the young men and women born in the 1980's forward, who have volunteered, and have gone to war for all of us. Put their very lives on the line for us. It is the very least we can do to honor them, and to help them find jobs, good jobs, when they return. And to help their families if for any reason, they don't return.
And I agree that control of nuclear proliferation is very important, but I would also add the other parts to WMD...chemical and biological proliferation.... There, it takes not much, to paralyze and kill an entire civilization. |
