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Quote by: praxius You want an isolated debate on the US, state so. |
that wasn't the point, but i guess there's no possibility in getting through here...
anyway, back to the OP:
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Quote by: kristol America's hopes for the future rest mostly with the 9/11 generation. Despite their unfortunate propensity so far to vote Democratic, these young men and women will, I believe, turn out to be far more impressive than we boomers who begat them. It would of course be a fitting fate, after all the soaring rhetoric about the boomers, if they turned out to be basically a parenthesis. They may go down in history as occupying space between the generation that won World War II and presided over a relatively successful second-half of the twentieth century, and the 9/11 generation that will deal with the threats the boomers neglected during that quintessential boomer decade, the '90s. It is the 9/11 generation that will have to construct and maintain a new American century. |
this seems to have been kristol's entire point of the article. he's creating his own characterization, this "9/11 generation"... and from what he's saying, this generation is supposedly going to march on forward with the neocon mission - fighting wars all over the world in the "war on terror"...
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Quote by: kristol But that era--in which the American stance was one of doubt, weakness, and retreat, in which we failed to affirm our most cherished principles or even stand up for ourselves--came to an end on September 11, 2001. The United States committed itself to defeating terror around the world. We committed ourselves to reshaping the Middle East, so the region would no longer be a hotbed of terrorism, extremism, anti-Americanism, and weapons of mass destruction. The first two battles of this new era are now over. The battles of Afghanistan and Iraq have been won decisively and honorably. But these are only two battles. We are only at the end of the beginning in the war on terror and terrorist states. |
the beginning.... even people who know nothing about kristol should be able to presume what he'd like this "9/11 generation" to do to syria and iran...