The Middle Eastern question

[Galen]

(05-12-2016, 07:40 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Truthfully I think it is generational.  Boomers seem to be the only Generation with any great degree of political power remaining (yeah there are some Silents lingering in the Senate...but in the grand scheme they're not that important) that are infected with this particular brand of diplomatic-mental-illness.

In the general case you are correct. I must mention that the Silents were always pretty much non-entities after the Boomers started since all they ever did was try to placate everyone.

(05-12-2016, 07:40 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Xers tend to be far more isolationist, and Millies seem to have no desire to die for obscure causes.  In the Xer's case it seems to be the complete reversal that the Lost went through.  Xers went from interventionist to isolationist, the Lost went from isolationist to interventionist.

Good Point. This is one of the reasons that I suspect that the era of the total state is coming to an end. During their early lives the US actually won wars. Other than Grenada and the Gulf War all Generation X has seen is that the US is really good at losing them. Grenada was a joke and lets face it the Gulf War was the trigger that set the current series of wars into motion. Only an idiot or progressive, but I repeat myself, would continue with interventionism in the face of that record.

(05-12-2016, 07:40 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: I've made it a point to study history.  Kind of hard to come to the conclusions I have without studying history.

Most people have the comic book caricature that we get in school which is more indoctrination than history.