Re: Am I missing something here?
Actually what is being said here is absolutely correct. Lets take a look at society today vs. 30 years ago. With the feminist manifesto in place we now have:<br /><br />Literacy rates that boarder on unbelievable but kids who can apply a condom to virtually any household vegetable. cool.........<br /><br />High school dropout rates that boggle the mind.<br /><br />Viewing of porn skyrocketing but nice clean tool calendars.<br /><br />No fighting anywhere but gang violence through the roof. But having fathers in place wouldn't have helped at all. Heck they are just the sperm doners anywhy, they don't do anything a woman can't do.<br /><br />Rule number one soldiers die, rule number two you can't change rule number one. So if a soldier dies we should just give up. 1800 people is a lot of men and women to die, (primarily men) but in the grand scheme of things it is nothing. Compared to 9/11 it is less than half the civilians slaughtered. It is less than the murder rate in California. No fathers needed.<br /><br />Fathers gone, spankings replaced with social workers and law suits, 14 year olds are sex symbols, a childs energy overcome with riddelin, punishment replaced with therapy, scoldings replaced with timeouts, team sports and training replaced with skateboarding (not in and of itself bad just symptomatic), drug use and drinking condoned by parents, making out replaced by rainbow parties (please don't ask me to explain, just ask your kids), No keeping score at sports cuz "nobody should lose", helmets for everything, hard grades replaced with social promotion and self esteem, sucess replaced by celebrity, work replaced by entitlements.<br /><br />Freedom isn't free, it is paid for in lives. Each one is priceless, each one a downpayment on the lives of hundreds of civilians. Think of the battles that didn't take place because it wouldn't play on TV even if it would save lives in the long run. Military stategy rewritten to meet civilian sensibilities. War has its own set of rules. Rewriting history to make the H-bomb decision a bad one. Rewarding cowardise with celebrity to forward an agenda. Try bombing civilian infastructure to demoralize a population today. Dan Rather would have a stroke.<br /><br />We lost Vietnam when we began having to see the realities of war from a civilian perspective in almost real time. War is hell, it is to be avoided, but when implemented it should be left to its own devices and not held to the standard of how the media thinks the termostat at Gitmo should be used. <br /><br />TV that would benefit america today: The Walton's but they have that strong father figure darn.<br /><br />Ward Churchill recently said it is just fine to shoot a superior officer if you don't like the war. Every American has a right to free speech, they are not entitled to be supported or compensated for treason by the government he so detests. If he was true to his convictions he would not accept government money but we all know he is a lying hypocrit. Wonder what would happen if a student nationally stated it would be ok to frag a professor for not giving only A's or teaching liberalism. Its an idea whose time has come. FYI subversion of the government is one of the exceptions to tenure and one can, and in this case should be fired. This is NOT a freedom of speech issue.
<br /><br />My generation and my parents' generation are disgusted. Is this the country that our fathers, brothers, uncles and other loved companions died for? Not by a dam site it isn't.
