Posted on 04/14/2018 1:58:47 PM PDT by Ennis85
I was born during a war, though you wouldn’t have known it. There was clean water and electricity and nutrition enough to see an eight-pound baby girl into the world on a cold December night in Texas. It was the Gulf War . The devastation was somewhere over there, not here.
Two more wars began before I went into middle school; one ended — formally, anyway — after I had gone to college, the other continues to this day. While I was in college, we took military action in Libya, too. Again, there was no rupture on the home front, no rationing. There were more proximate troubles at home: the 2008 financial crisis, for instance, which directly imperiled more Americans than all the far-flung, never-ending war. It hurt in a way anyone could see.
Whatever the reason — maybe it is because the wars tend to bleed together now in a haze of background noise; maybe it is because their pretexts are increasingly flimsy; maybe it is because more than half of Americans feel we failed in Iraq — these late wars have coincided with a wide demoralization of the American people. Confidence in our national institutions is historically low; so is trust in our government . Perhaps because we were so often told it was necessary to wage war to build democracies, an entire generation now seems disenchanted with the very system. We have been spared combat on the home front, but we have been damaged all the same.
Nonetheless, we find ourselves on the verge of uncertain escalation in Syria. Wednesday morning, President Trump tweeted, “Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and ‘smart!’ You shouldn’t be partners with a Gas Killing
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BFD you were “born during the Gulf War”
Try hitting the beaches at Iwo or Okinawa or Normandy, then get back with your “expertise” Lizzie
Idiot writer.
The point is not to be in a war, it is to avoid war by “carrying a big stick” and using it on occasion to prove the point. Someone famous said that but she’d have had to study history to know it.
Its bad enough what has happened in Syria, now the political noise distracts even further.
Trump’s enemies planning a coup to install Pence, who is a RINO Corporatist, in his place?
Hey Liz who the he’ll are you to make such an assertion?
It’s not unusual for a younger person to be ignorant of history. Our public school system has failed us.
Demoralizing Americans is what the Washington Post exists for, isn’t it?
They helped Obama through Libya by simply not spending much time reporting on it, most of the Democratic Party had no idea there was a war in Libya and still doesn’t.
Born during the First Gulf War?
Come back when you are a grown person, kid.
I wonder how much reporting she’s done on the Syrian war before November 2016. Suddenly it’s a concern after all these years?
WP a total communists rag not worth reading anything from them. They are part of the pig organizations out to destroy America.
and the Magic Negro was ??
Come back when you are a grown person, little boy
Here’s how stupid this bitch is:
Hanging on and hoping for the best is certainly one approach to rescuing the best of liberalism from its discontents, but my answer is admittedly more ambitious: It’s time to give socialism a try.
Yeah, because it’s succeeded wherever it’s been tried?
Another Know It All in her twenties. WaPo must find these candidates in the dumpster out back
Putting WAPO and her age together, I decided this wasn’t worth the time to read...
She’s at least in her late twenties. And she doesn’t know any more than that?
At that age I had great pride in American History, this dumbass doesn’t know squat, and it’s not the system’s failure. . . it’s hers.
Poor Lizzie, plenty of people took a dump during the Gulf War but that doesn’t mean they know anything more than she does, which is nothing.
We haven’t had a war since ww2 . - just National Security State Actions in perpetuity
Psssssst....You left out 9-11.
Well,Lizzie...I was born during the Korean War and served in the Armed Forces during the Vietnam War.And I’m just fine with Mr Trump,advised by top notch people,as Commander-In-Chief!
Psssst....Our country came about “Out Of War”.
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