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I don\'t know Doc. age alone does not make a person wise (that isn\'t a stab at Orph).
exactly my first point..as i said, there are exceptions to the rule....
from my perspective, people from my parents generation are in many cases inflexibly molded into a political shape which reflects their own era, rather than changing dynamicly to accomidate the world we actualy live in. Granted age bestows a more solid frame of reference, but what\'s the point if that frame is skewed by the experiences that created it?
it is exactly those experiences, good and bad, which shape the values we hold dear....and all are shaped differently.....the times hold the mold...WW2...the world fought a common set of a problems, for the most part....the enemies were acknowledged, and feared, and the concensus was built because of the obvious impending consequenses.....prolly the last time the world has been that united....which is why:
people from the WWII generation are always thrilled to see him in his uniform, and compliment him on it.
when i came back from the Nam, i was struck at the venom to which we arrived...
people from the vietnam generation generaly look askance and ask, why are you whearing that. a clearly negative responce
..the world we lived in was split because the enemy was not a common one, and split the country into fragmented political structures, to wit, we have yet to recover...
finaly, people from my generation are completly mixed in their responces, some react with entusiasim while others do so with disgust..
because they have had no unifying set of events in which they HAD to rally together to defeat a common enemy.....and even after the 9-11 event, they still are dissaffected to some degree...thus the split continues....and until we have a few more events such as that, im of the firm belief we will NOT be unified in our fight (and it is a WORLD fight, not just ours) against these friggin fanatical lunatics that cant wait to get to Allah....unfortunate, and sad actually, but all to real. which emphasises the next point....
This may partly proove your point in that it illistrates the amorphous opinion of young people, but my feeling is that it also shows a degree of sophistication that we are making our own opinions without particular regaurd to what the government, or our peers for that matter, tell us. this in contrast with the mass protest of vietnam, and the mass enlistments of WWII. in both cases, in my opinion, young people were cought up by the popular movement and operating more on the opinion of the majority than their own.
this is pretty much what we just covered, not gonna belabor it.... 
I do not claim to have any idea what Bushes motivations for the war are. My feeling though is that he is sincerly trying to do what is right for the world. Whether what has been done is a good thing or not remains to be seen. in my opinion Sadam should have been removed in the first gulf war. it had to be done, I\'m just not sure it was done right.
and to this statement, i tip my hat to you sir....i agree almost 100%....and i will still fight and die for my country because, i feel ITS THE RIGHT THING TO DO...the thing that bothers me the most here is that we will have to endure more 9-11 scenarios before its all said and done, the odds state so, and itll only be then that we get off our asses and become the country we should have been all along....UNITED states.....as for the rest of my brethren the world over.....think what you like of me and us, but dont let it color your true values, or your statements just because of some petty animosities....
to be continued, im sure...
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(only the old farts will get that one...
....send it to him ben, itd be a nice gesture... 
but it was more like the "throw yer hands up in the air" point...what are you gonna do after it leaves the realm of true discussion?....hmm
