Are We A Nation Of Weenies?

What’s wrong with youth today? No matter where you stand on the issue of Iraq - and I’m not saying where I stand on it, as it’s not germane to the issue at hand - you have to admit that there are a lot of people who are strongly opposed to our involvement with the war in Iraq.

In particular, there are a lot of young adults - or even not so young adults - adults between the ages of say 18 and 30, who are very opposed to the Iraq war.

So where the hell are they all?

Why, in my time we knew how to make our voices heard. And we did it. Because we cared.

Remember the Vietnam war? Remember the protests? The protest songs? Demonstrations? Kent State? People setting themselves on fire?

Now, I’m not suggesting that the young adults of this generation should set themselves on fire, or get themselves shot at, but where the hell are the protests and the protest songs? Where are the demonstrations?

Somehow, complaining about our involvement in Iraq over a triple mochacino with a twist…

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