The boomer generation is just hard to figure. They are justifiably proud of the art and culture they created in the sixties; however, they mostly want to forget how that art (and political seech) was mostly responsible for creating the political movement that left millions of Vietnamese to die in Pol Pots killing fields.
Now, as the elders of our country, they act as if they want the same faite for the Iraqi's. It's a hard act for them. Even a liberal can see that the people of the Middle East deserve freedom. The truth is, they are really in an intellectual quandry. Helping the Iraqi's build a free society is basically admitting they were wrong in the sixties about Vietnam.
The should really be more mature about it, in my opinion. They gave us great music, the sexual revolution, some of the best movies I've ever seen, and the civil rights movement--all great accomplishments. They just happened to sell out freedom along the way. Hey. We all have regrets. Until they admit they screwed up (or until they die off), we'll always have trouble supporting freedom abroad.
So, you only watch Clint Eastwood movies!;-)
I wouldn't call the 44 million babies legally torn apart in their mothers' wombs since 1973 a "great accomplishment."
CRAP!!
I'm boomer, graduated from high school in '68. I don't think the stuff from "the sixties" is really what you might think. Most of the socially conscious, PC, anti-war stuff came right at the very end of the decade, while all the good music came earlier, from the 50s to the mid to late 60s. Other than the music, what great art and culture came out of the boomer generation?
Some really sexy technology dates from then, mostly as spin offs from military research, although the foundations where developed somewhat earlier, again with a fair amount of military research funding involved.