Atention Baby Boomers: The Weekly Standard thinks you’re a bunch of cowards

Dean Barrett of The Weekly Standard makes it clear and doesn’t stutter: The Baby Boomer generation was a bunch of cowards.

The 9/11 Generation: Better than the Boomers.

In the 1960s, history called the Baby Boomers. They didn’t answer the phone.

Confronted with a generation-defining conflict, the cold war, the Boomers–those, at any rate, who came to be emblematic of their generation–took the opposite path from their parents during World War II. Sadly, the excesses of Woodstock became the face of the Boomers’ response to their moment of challenge. War protests where agitated youths derided American soldiers as baby-killers added no luster to their image.

Few of the leading lights of that generation joined the military. Most calculated how they could avoid military service, and their attitude rippled through the rest of the century. In the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, military service didn’t occur to most young people as an option, let alone a duty.

But now, once again, history is calling. Fortunately, the present generation appears more reminiscent of their grandparents than their parents.

So stop you’re whining about Vietnam, and being drafted, and serving your country. William Kristol and The Weekly Standard think you were cowards. And being that none of them have ever been anywhere near an actual war, they know.

–WKW

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