[fintstone]

Originally posted by rrpjr
Thanks, Fintstone, for this and previous one. We are indeed the last, best hope -- precisely why so many wish us to be extinguished. Yeats' "wolves dragging down the noble stag." Anyway, we have no heroism problem in Iraq, or in battles anywhere. Taken as an average, we are exceptional. The problem, the heroism deficit, is in the privileged and political classes. Here, and throughout the west, these "important" but small men shrink from the moral hard work of maintaining freedom.

Agreed...I was passing through DFW airport yesterday and ran into some young, college age Marines at lunch. They were deploying back to the sandbox for the second time. I was pretty impressedwith what intelligent, well-spoken young men they were (and I already had a good opinion of young GIs). They would have been right at home in any grad school in the country. I sure hope my daughter finds a young man with the charcter and smarts these guys have.
Needless to say....although it was only McDonalds...their money was no good while I was there.