I was having a conversation with a coworker and I brought up the current unreset in Iran.  I mentioned that something like 2/3 of the population is under age 30 and it’s this part of the populace that is most tired of the Islamic government.  That got him to thinking about the changes that this country went through in the 60’s (he lived through that period).  This brought us around to the subject of “peace activists”.

One observation that I made is that the “peace activists” that we have today just don’t cut it with regards to the ones from back then (at least from my current vantage point—I wasn’t born until 1970, so I don’t have first-hand knowledge).  While I despise those who spit on our soldiers, I can understand why the rest of them were against the war (not that I necessarily want to get into a debate about Vietnam).  Today is completely different.  This country was attacked and we are at war whether these people want to admit it or not.  Not only are they wrong about the need for action, but most of them are idiots.

They also have a distorted view of our aims and capabilities.  They talk about the United States as if we just can’t wait to slaughter innocent women and children.  Besides Israel, I don’t know of any other country that takes such pains to prevent the deaths of innocents.  But to listen to these people you’d think that we were going to carpet bomb Iraq into a smoking pile of rubble from one border to the other.  I’m not trying to minimize the fact that war is a horrible thing, but let’s have a bit of perspective on the subject.