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Original Post Date: 2001-10-03 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 10/3/2001 12:33:06 AM
The Young & the Gutless
Source: New York Post
By ROD DREHER
October 2, 2001 — OUR enemies know what they believe.
They’re willing to kill for it.
And, more importantly, they’re willing to die for it.
Are the young men and women who may be called on to defend our civilization
willing to make the same sacrifice?
Anecdotal information cannot conclusively answer that question – thank
heavens.
If liberty had to depend on most of the young people I spoke to in Washington
Square Park the other day, we’d all be answering to Osama by Christmas.
“I’m not big on war,” says Patrick Mulryan, 21, an aspiring actor. “I’m gay,
so I’m not big on the military.”
Well, the Islamic extremists our military are preparing to attack are not big
on gays.
In Afghanistan, Osama’s Taliban supporters execute gays by crushing them
under demolished walls.
Recent college graduate Philip Rosenbloom, 21, is also unwilling to put his
life on the line to defend his country, which he says “to some extent, has
been something of a bully.”
NYU student Jonathan Chen, 20, thinks that war is wrong, wrong, wrong.
But as for terrorists, Chen insists that “we have to take care of them.”
“We,” but not “he”?
Does Chen mean that other men have to be willing to die to protect his
freedom?
Yes. Some people are born for that purpose, he says.
“There are people who are more willing to fight, who have the mindset of
killing people,” Chen says. “Not everybody is meant to fight.”
Chen has “hopes and dreams” of becoming a filmmaker, and he doesn’t want to
“endanger” them, he says.
Presumably, those brave firefighters who went to their deaths in those
burning towers to save the lives of strangers had no hopes and dreams worthy
of concern.
Perhaps, men and women who are willing to die to defend Chen’s right to
pursue his hopes and dreams have none themselves.
NYU student Justin Tables, 19, saw one of the towers collapse in front of his
eyes.
Still, he is unwilling to risk his life to fight the terrorists because “this
is all [America’s] fault anyway.”
Jason Toledo, 19, is the only draft-age man I can find who would be willing
to die for his country in the coming war. He says he’s not enthusiastic about
fighting, but he would go if America called.
Toledo, an NYU student from Atlanta, says he’s wondered a lot if Americans
have the backbone to fight such a dedicated enemy. The terrorist-themed Bruce
Willis film “The Siege” has been on his mind.
“There’s a saying in that movie that the most committed wins. That’s scary,
because we’re not about causes here. We’re about individualism,” he says.
Toledo cautions me not to take the young men in Washington Square as
representative of the whole country.
“Man, we’re in the Village. I don’t know anyone who would go, even if there
were a draft,” he says.
Still, you have to figure that you could have gone into Washington Square
Park in December 1941 and found plenty of liberal young men who were willing
to go fight Tojo and Hitler, neither of whom had done what Osama bin Laden
did: mount a sneak attack that murdered more than 6,000 in New York, live on
TV.
That was then. This is now. Maybe the Muslim fanatics are right, and we in
the free world have become decadent beyond all saving.
God help us. We may soon see.
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