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This is a particularly alarming article, not to say that it is untrue. At this time, because of the eight year drain on our military, the lack of moral leadership for longer than that, AND the lack of strong, resolute leadership NOW, we are vulnerable. We have our soft underbelly exposed because we have become, by and large, one big soft underbelly. Would you feel confident that the current generation could fight and win a war against the 1940 Germans, and Japanese? That generation was hardened by the depression and the dustbowl years. We have been softened by Nintendo, and many other conveniences of the modern age.

In The Bible there are descriptions of the end times with not so cryptic mentions of the participants. The American Eagle is not mentioned. Not how could it be that the most powerful nation that has ever inhabited the planet is not involved in the largest battle ever. My conclusion is, that by the time this battle takes place we will be irrelevent. Now this battle may be next week or next year, or 500 years from now, but by the time it does happen, America will have gone through some mighty big changes. None of them for the better.

If there is a single reason for the amount of time I spend on this, and simalar sites, it is the realization that the Democrats plan for our nations future is a further step towards our irrelevence, when what we need is to be VERY relevent.

Be well...

You give this generation too little credit, speaking for myself, an active duty Marine GySgt, The Corps can and will win just like the generation that humbled the Nazi's and Japanese. We still instill the Warrior spirit in our Marines.
Mark my words these men will do this country proud.
I also feel that our sister services are quite capable, and up to the task at hand. Give these men and women the credit they deserve, they get up every morning, put thier uniforms on and carry out the mission with no complaint. They know what is at stake, and are willing to be put in harms way so you can go to bed at night safely. Semper Fi.

"Would you feel confident that the current generation could fight and win a war against the 1940 Germans, and Japanese? That generation was hardened by the depression and the dustbowl years."

And that generation .. as well as the previous ones .. were judged by our enemies to be weak-bodied, weak-willed, and too soft to face them in battle. Can you really name one war in which the United States has fought where our enemies didn't feel that we loved comfort too much, loved our money too much, loved ourselves too much to be worth worrying about, that we would allow ourselves to be slapped across the face and kicked around instead of standing and fighting back?

Both the Japanese and the Germans held the United States and its people in contempt for our "soft" way of life; neither thought that we would go the distance to fight them; nor did the Germans in the First World War; nor the British in 1812 or 1776; nor the Mexicans in 1846; nor even the Indians from the 1600's to the end of the 1800's. Even during the Civil War (War of Northern Aggression, War Between the States, etc, etc), both the North and the South, when viewing their opponents, believed that the other side relished money/the good life too much to be worthy opponents.

Sorry, but I feel that, should the need arise, the present generation will rise to the occasion, Nintendo or not ... and, in some instances, Nintendo-knowledge is just is what's needed for some portions of the Armed Forces. I retired seven years ago and still work on the largest military installation in the free world, Fort Hood, and I see these young soldiers, NCO's, and officers every day.

They say that history repeats itself. If radical Islam believes that America and its fighting forces are too soft, too weak-willed to fight back, they'll soon be introduced to 1941 all over again.

"The American Eagle is not mentioned. Not how could it be that the most powerful nation that has ever inhabited the planet is not involved in the largest battle ever."

Besides Israel, how many modern countries are mentioned in End Times prophecies? Oh, I know that annimals are often used in prophecy, but I don't know of many times when the name of a county is adjacent to the name of a beast, ie, "American Eagle", "Russian Bear", "British Lion", etc.

Would you feel confident that the current generation could fight and win a war against the 1940 Germans, and Japanese?

If they displayed nancy-boy traits as prominently as you do, yes, I would be worried. Fortunately, they don't.

That generation was hardened by the depression and the dustbowl years. We have been softened by Nintendo, and many other conveniences of the modern age.

May I suggest you go discuss how soft we are with those surviving members of the Iraqi Army and Republican Guard who were on active duty in January-February 1991? It's not as if life in America has gotten that dramatically softer in 11 years.