Everyone hales members of the World War II generation. After all, this is the generation that lived through the Great Depression and won the war against fascism. Former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw wrote a book and coined the term “The Greatest Generation”. Even members of Hollywood’s liberal elite like Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are great admirers of this generation of Americans and rightly so.
One of the reasons this generation was so successful in fighting the war against Germany and Japan is that they did what it took to get the job done. They were not burdened by foolish notions political correctness or undue concerns for civil and human rights. They had a war to win, a world to save and did whatever it took. Case in point, when the US was engaged in its island hopping campaign in the Pacific the Japanese bunkered themselves in caves. The American troops used flamethrowers to force the Japanese troops from these entrenchments. When the enemy emerged from the caves they were shot by US troops. I dare say that if our military were to use similar tactics today in our current war against Islamo-fascism these same liberals would accuse our military of war crimes.
When German saboteurs were caught on US soil they were tried before a military tribunal and executed. Today The New York Times Op-Ed page, the ACLU and their allies on the left would fight with their last once of strength on behalf of these enemies of America.
It is clear that America has been weaken by “The Worst Generation”. Those born after World War II, the Baby Boom generation, are in large part the authors of political correctness. They are the lawyers, professors, politicians and journalists that came of age in the 60’s and early 70’s. At their very core they have a deep hatred for traditional American values. I have said it before and I will say it again, we could no longer fight and win a war on the scale of World War II the “Worst Generation“ does not have the stomach for it.
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