Antiwar Activists, Where Are You?

Boston Globe ^ | November 7, 2005 | Victoria A. Bonney

[Jim Noble]

MY FELLOW young Americans, the evidence is mounting that this war we are fighting in Iraq is not a ''just" war. No, this is a dirty fight, and we're in it for the long haul. But I guess that's the problem -- ''we" are not in it at all.

''We" are here in our land of iPods and cellphones, luxuriating in our apathetic comas while our soldiers are over there.

I know what you're thinking. You have that magnetic yellow ribbon on your SUV, and, boy, if that is not uber-effective I do not know what is. But let me ask you, if you'd just put your Podcast on pause and cellphone on silence for a moment, is this all enough?

Two wars ago, during the Vietnam disaster, there was Generation Activist. The youth of America rallied against ''the man." How did they do it? They didn't have e-boards or e-mail for that matter...

Why is Generation Apathetic unable to have the same resounding roar?...

For starters we have a woman from Generation Activist doing our dirty work. Former flower child Cindy Sheehan is out on the front lines with a pack of her patchouli-wearing alliances. What is the youth of America doing in the meantime? ...

It's up to us to chart a course. We cannot live our lives on cruise control.

Victoria A. Bonney is a senior at Endicott College.

[Jim Noble]

Author is a senior at Endicott College - where, I imagine, they do not require rhetoric OR logic in order to graduate.

[SamAdams76]

I thought sporting those yellow ribbons on cars meant you supported the troops?

[the tongue]

This poor stupid kid. There is no grounding in reality, just a fanciful idea of what college life is supposed to be, thanks to Marxist professors who incite these braindead youths.

[G.Mason]

Pitty poor Victoria. Obviously she has grown up to the point where she finds that sex, drugs and rock & roll just aren't enough to fill her void.

[APFel]

Why is Generation Apathetic unable to have the same resounding roar?...

Because there is no draft, idiot.

Next.

APf

[Sertorius]

"Two wars ago, during the Vietnam disaster, there was Generation Activist."

This time they are generation "9/11", or generation "defender of freedom," and we all appreciate them.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I'm sure the Germans have a word for false nostalgia for a bygone era that never was. I wish I knew what it is.

I am a boomer. The middle class boomers were the most narcissistic, solipsistic, shallow people you'd never want to meet. Their distorted vision of their own virtue is only matched by a complete lack of any ability for self criticism or insight.

Their one innovation was the introduction of principles that did not require sacrifice, all sacrifices for their principles were incumbent on others. Kinda like the Clintons.

Victoria is in good company.

[Watery Tart]

Why is Generation Apathetic unable to have the same resounding roar?...

Because there is no draft, idiot.

You're wrong. Charlie Rangel, Designated Bloviator for the House of Representatives (MINORITY PARTY), has sent out the draft notices already! First on his list: Dick Cheyney. 2 and 3 on the depth chart are the twins, doncha know.