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Originally Posted by Danzig
ww2 was fought completely differently. everyone was involved, everyone pushed towards winning that war--support from home was great, with everyone sacrificing time, money, the better things in life. everyone stepped up.
now, not the same. now, we're so far removed, it doesn't seem real. there's no push to get support, no one wants to get involved. just another example of the 'me' generation.
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Well, the two were very different from the get-go. Iraq posed no threat to America and no threat to world order like our enemies in WWII did.
I think that this being the "me" generation has absolutely nothing to do with there being no support for this war. People supported WWII because it was a noble endeavor that was necessary to stabilize the world. This one is very different in that there was nothing noble about starting this war. It's hard to ask an entire nation to sacrifice for a war that they don't support and that the majority never have, especially when the war was started against a country that posed zero threat to us.
The two wars are apples and oranges, and I don't think the attitude towards this war is the result of the "me" generation, it's the result of frustration that we started a war because we felt like it, not because we had to.