All the Partisan bickering in Washington nowadays is ludicrous in the face of the challenges we are facing as a Nation!

Unbelievably, it seems some Democrats are so desperate to embarrass, and prove wrong the Policies of the Administration of their “hated” nemesis, President Bush, that they almost jump for joy when hearing of another American casualty, or of setbacks in Iraq which to impute to him! They ignore the common sense of realizing, as Senator Lieberman recently pointed out, that we undermine the credibility of our Commander in Chief in this time of War at our peril, distancing our Allies, emboldening our enemies, and further endangering the lives of our troops!!!

Neither Democrats nor Republicans have a "monopoly" on integrity, or "TRUTH," and though outnumbered by their more raucous colleagues, there are still some Democrats who embody the decency, and the integrity of Democrats of far gone days, when the Democratic Party was the Party of the "common man," and not of the "Special Interests" (rabid women libbers, gays, lesbians, atheists, welfare pimps, mangy dogs, three legged horses, etc.) like Joe Lieberman, and Zel Miller, and stood-up for the values of the "common man!"

Talking about “Special Interests,” you know, for all we criticize many of our peers for feeling so "entitled," it may well be attributed to a "generational" trait, much more than to a "personal" one, being they are part of our generation, the "Baby Boomer" generation! Let us further examine this phenomenon:

We didn't have to quit school and go work at 10 years old, 14 hours a day at a “Sweat Shop,” like so many generations of Americans before us did, to help feed our younger brothers and sisters, while going to College was for the most part the exclusive privilege of the “Ivy League” affluent, and the rich!

For the first time in our History in the fifties, the average Dad earned enough at work to support his family and plan for the future, while Mom could afford to stay at home raising the children, who had their toys and Lionel trains to play with, watching TV, surrounded by comfort and gadgets, in the home
they owned, with a brand new car straight from Detroit sitting in the driveway; and what did we do in our turn? Turn the American dream into a nightmarish trap of crime ridden
"Projects," "Hoods," "drugs," and welfare!

For the first time in our History, the sons and daughters of the average Joe on the street could look forward to going to College in the sixties; and what did we do with these new opportunities? Turn our Campuses into breeding grounds of anarchy, permissiveness, and hateful ideologies, bent on overturning the very same social structure from which they derived their unmerited "privileges!"

Women who had so amply proven their equality and abilities during the War, when they had been so crucial to maintaining our Production Lines moving during the War, welding, assembling, building tanks and aircraft, doing the work which hereto had been thought to be the exclusive province of men, while our men fought in the Pacific and in Europe, and who after the War, for the first time in our Nation's History, were offered the leisure time, and educational opportunities to become all they could envision; and what did many do with these new found freedoms and opportunities? Become rabid, men hating, frothing at the mouth “Feminists” with hairy armpits and burning bras (not to mention sagging tits!), who even shun the primary biological reason of their existence for the "propagation of the species," and have made it the Law of the Land, to redress their lack of personal responsibility and continence, to be able to butcher the fetuses of their own conception out of their bodies, not as their unborn children, but as an "inconvenience" to be resolved by a Doctor with a scalpel and a scraper!

This "Baby Boomer" generation in its sense of hedonistic
"entitlement," engaged, in a manner unlike any previous generations, in the use of "recreational" drugs, and launched itself into the "Sexual Revolution" in which it indulged, in all its forms of sexual pleasures, promiscuity, and depravity, without taking into the least account the emotional, societal, and medical consequences of said actions; and what have we got? Rampant drug abuse, and substance dependency affecting our lives, the proliferation of hepatitis, herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis, aids and other venereal ( or is it “Venerable?”) diseases, skyrocketing teenage pregnancies and births out of wedlock, the increasing deterioration of the traditional, “biological,” Family unit (a male, female, and their offsprings), the ever ascending incidence of "single mothers;" all of it in turn affecting the rearing of our children and our youths, who ever-increasingly feel lost, alienated, prone to suicide, engage in violence and
self-destructive behavior, fail in our schools, and are for the most part malcontents, and underachievers!

Our Fathers fought unquestioningly in World War II in their Patriotic duty, and ironically it was the productivity necessary for the War effort which set in motion, the industrial machinery, the agricultural prowess, and the social changes which after the War were responsible for our "Horn of Plenty," yet when it came our turn to sacrifice ourselves for our Country, we would yell" "Hell no, we won't go!" while waving the hated flag of our Viet Cong enemies on the steps of our very Capitol!!!

And now, ironically, it is these same balding, and white haired
"entitled," "Baby Boomers," who smoked the pot, but did not inhale, and consider they did not have sex with a woman who performed oral sex on them in spite of the intimacy, simply because they did not penetrate her vagina, who wielded the Viet Cong flags and waved them over the “Star and Stripes” on the steps of our Nation's Capitol, and burned our Flag and their "Draft Cards," who have become the "Establishment" and determine our Nation's future from Washington; and what do we get? I suppose that in a bout of nostalgia for their younger days, as older people tend to do, they want to relive their "heroic," Viet Cong flag wielding days, and once again intone their "pacifist" slogans, and vehemently labor at all costs, to see us, in this new conflict against Islamofacism and terrorism in Iraq, once again suffer the humiliation, and defeat, of having our troops come running back home with "their tails between their legs," much as they accomplished with the Viet Nam War!!!

Our defeat in Viet Nam opened the way for the spreading of the Viet Cong and its sympathizers to Laos, and Cambodia, and brought about the Pol Pot, in whose killing fields millions of people were murdered, in a "genocide" which our withdrawal from Viet Nam propitiated. The mounds of white skulls bleached by the sun are a mute testament to the fruits of our cowardice!!!

This time, when we withdraw away from Iraq in defeat, as is the wishes of so many of those "Baby Boomer" Democrats on the Hill, the consequences will be far worse, since it will propitiate the fall of Iraq into the hands of the extremists, which will then work to unite all the Islamic Nations of the Middle East and Asia into an emerging "Caliphate" which will then turn its nuclear weapons (those in the hands of Pakistan today, and soon those of Iran), and point them at Israel, Europe, and our shores!!!

As much as Democrats may wish to delude themselves saying that Iraq is not linked to the "War on Terror," and that terrorism is primarily a "Law Enforcement” concern, as was the position of "Purple Heart for a band-aid Recipient," Democratic Presidential Candidate, John Kerry, wishing to draw the US back into "Isolationism," none other than Al Qaeda's Second in Command, Al Swahiri, in his most recent statements, made it perfectly clear, that the goal of Al Qaeda and these terrorists, and their struggle, is not just against the US Occupation of Iraq, or the establishment of a "Palestinian State," but the obliteration of Israel, of their "Great Shaitan," The United States, and of Western Civilization from the face of the earth, to be replaced by a world-wide Islamic Caliphate!!!

When will, this "entitled," "Baby Boomer" generation open up its eyes, and see all the woe it, which was the most blessed generation of all before it, has wrought upon the world!!!Though Ezra Pound uttered these words referring to those living in the aftermath of World War I, I find it more befitting of the "Baby Boomers," indeed: "You are all a lost Generation..."

Blessed be the day when we all have passed, that the madness may abate!!!

Althor

Althor,
Very good commentary, and excellent points.

Thank you for your input!