[washingtonismoney]

Query:  Do you think the current crop of politicians of all stripes who have this country tied in knots,  would be acting as they are if they'd had to fight on Tarawa or Omaha Beach, or Bastogne or Bataan?  There was something about that shared national experience and the effect it had on servicemen and all Americans that made them more practical and reasonable.  Not without differing ideas,  but not so immune to the common good as a value or a "given" in how we viewed our political differences.

This is just nostalgia talking. Somehow the WWII generation's practicality and reasonableness didn't stop Joe McCarthy, massive resistance to black civil rights or the Vietnam War (among other things.) They did great things, but let's not make them into supermen.

[washingtonismoney]

Query:  Do you think the current crop of politicians of all stripes who have this country tied in knots,  would be acting as they are if they'd had to fight on Tarawa or Omaha Beach, or Bastogne or Bataan?  There was something about that shared national experience and the effect it had on servicemen and all Americans that made them more practical and reasonable.  Not without differing ideas,  but not so immune to the common good as a value or a "given" in how we viewed our political differences.

This is just nostalgia talking. Somehow the WWII generation's practicality and reasonableness didn't stop Joe McCarthy, massive resistance to black civil rights or the Vietnam War (among other things.) They did great things, but let's not make them into supermen.