THE YOUNG AND THE GUTLESS
By ROD DREHER
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October 2, 2001 -- OUR enemies know what they believe.
They're willing to kill for it.
And, more importantly, they're willing to die for it.
Are the young men and women who may be called on to defend our civilization willing to make the same sacrifice?
Anecdotal information cannot conclusively answer that question - thank heavens.
If liberty had to depend on most of the young people I spoke to in Washington Square Park the other day, we'd all be answering to Osama by Christmas.
"I'm not big on war," says Patrick Mulryan, 21, an aspiring actor. "I'm gay, so I'm not big on the military."
Well, the Islamic extremists our military are preparing to attack are not big on gays.
In Afghanistan, Osama's Taliban supporters execute gays by crushing them under demolished walls.
Recent college graduate Philip Rosenbloom, 21, is also unwilling to put his life on the line to defend his country, which he says "to some extent, has been something of a bully."
NYU student Jonathan Chen, 20, thinks that war is wrong, wrong, wrong.
But as for terrorists, Chen insists that "we have to take care of them."
"We," but not "he"? ..........
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