Whitaker's Current Articles November 8,  2003





November 8, 2003 -- Something Else That No Decent Person Would Say

November 8, 2003 -- Who Would Call Themselves “The Greatest Generation?”

November 8, 2003 -- Poor Babies!

November 8, 2003 -- If the “Greatest Generation” Saved the World, Why Have We Lost So Much?

November 8, 2003 -- Moral Cowardice

November 8, 2003 -- The Obedient Generation

 

Fun Quote:

The preacher had had double bypass surgery to keep him alive. 

The preacher wore glasses.

The preacher had a fortune worth of dental work.

The preacher had a hearing aid and false teeth.

He was preaching about how man should not interfere with nature.

 

                            Something Else That No Decent Person Would Say                          

 

When a liberal writes a book about how wonderful somebody is, something smells.   Tom Brokaw worships the generation that fought World War II.

Nothing liberals say ever works.   If a liberal says it, it is not true.

The World War II generation is the one I was raised with.   It built the world I was born into.

Tom Brokaw loves that world.

No one is allowed to contradict Brokaw.   First of all, a lot of fine young Americans died in World War II, so any criticism of Roosevelt or Brokaw is Evil and Forbidden.

Please see Whitaker Online for October 18, 2003, History’s Hostages.

Secondly, this is very personal.  We all have family in that generation, so any criticism of Brokaw or Roosevelt is an insult to everybody’s Loved Ones.

A large part of my family was in uniform in World War II. 

But a lot of our families were in Korea and Vietnam too.   I have noticed that World War II is the only war no one is allowed to criticize.

If you say anything against World War II, you are Evil because so many Americans died in it. 

Lots of Americans died in Korea and Vietnam, but you can praise the Peoples' Peace-Loving Democratic Republics all you want to.

Loving Castro is one of the great virtues of our age.

As usual, there is a great coincidence here: the one thing that no decent person is allowed to say just happens to be what liberals don’t want said.

That's what you have me for.  I don't care what decent people are allowed to say. 
 

                          Who Would Call Themselves "The Greatest Generation?"                    

First, let’s get one thing straight.   You are going to say, “But they didn’t call themselves The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw called them the greatest generation.”

Let me tell you something every professional writer knows.   You don’t write for yourself, you write for the market.

When I wrote speeches for politicians, no one could say,   “But the congressman didn’t say that, his speechwriter Bob Whitaker wrote that.”

The book called “The Greatest Generation” sold like hotcakes because the World War II generation wanted to be called that.
 

                                                           Poor Babies!                                                                  


If you want to know how the World War II generation looks at itself, look at Bob Dole’s favorite picture of himself.

You have seen that picture at least twenty times.  It shows Bob Dole as a young man in his hospital bed, back to the camera, all alone with his war injury.  He is lying in bed, and no one is there.

Actually, Dole’s entire home town of Lawrence, Kansas threw itself behind the young man who had been injured in the War.   But the picture Dole’s generation likes is the one of him all alone and forgotten, the Silent Hero.

No generation of Americans has ever been less forgotten than the one that calls itself The Greatest Generation.   Those who fought in World War One received no veterans’ benefits at all.  The veterans of Vietnam were reviled, the heroes of the Korean War were forgotten.

But only the Greatest Generation Truly Suffered.
 

    If  "The Greatest Generation" Saved the World Why Have We Lost so Much?       

Every liberal says that the Greatest Generation “saved the world.”  Bill Clinton says that all the time.

When the Greatest Generation took over, Germany and Russia were dictatorships.

When the Greatest Generation ceased to control things, about 1980, totalitarians ruled a third of the human race.

Liberals love the Greatest Generation because it got rid of the rightist extremists like Hitler and Mussolini and gave a third of the world to their beloved Peace-Loving People’s Democratic Republics.

Brokaw thinks that’s wonderful.  Clinton thinks that’s wonderful.

I don’t think that’s wonderful.

No decent person would say that isn’t wonderful.

Which leaves it up to me.
 

                                                       Moral Cowardice                                                           

One thing no one dares accuse The Greatest Generation of is cowardice.   Every book written says that they were all heroes.  Every book written for the market says they were the Greatest Generation.  Every book written for the market says they Saved the World.

If you disagree you are a traitor and you hate our men who died in World War II.

I speak German.  I lived in former British colonies.  I know an awful lot of people who served on both sides in World War II.  I have never heard one single person say that the Americans who fought in World War II were good soldiers except Americans and those who write for the American market.

To a conservative, this is a HORRIBLE thing to say!   Conservatives worship uniforms and being a good soldier is everything.

I see no reason why Americans should do especially well in a war on somebody else's continent.  I do see a reason why we should be realistic about that.

Americans can be good at anything if they want to be.   Our present volunteer army is probably the best one on earth.

America wins wars like no one else in history.  But that is not because we are good soldiers.   We are great innovators and producers.

The reason that World War II was such a hideous failure was not because those who call themselves The Greatest Generation were not good soldiers DURING the War.   They failed because they lacked another kind of courage AFTER the War.  

Moral courage.
 

                       The Obedient Generation                           


No one talks all the time about what a hero he was in the War if he has had a life since.

People my age know a lot of people who talk all the time about how rough they had it in World War II.

Those guys are pathetic, but they are not the problem.

Most of the World War II veterans I know do not flout it.  The World War II veterans I am kin to do not flout it.    They talk about the lives they have had since.

Let me tell you the real problem I have with those who call themselves The Greatest Generation.

On television there was a public discussion of immigration.  One old World War II veteran had on his paper hat, and he said, “I fought a war so there wouldn’t be borders.”

There had to be other World War II veterans in the audience, but not one of them contradicted him.

They never do.

They never have.

They never will.

Do you know what it feels like to be fighting to close our borders to open immigration and to have some old man who says he's a war hero saying he fought and all his buddies died to open the borders?  

Can you imagine how it feels when not one single old man in the audience has the courage to contradict him?

Well, I know EXACTLY how it feels.  I have been in that position a number of times.  That is why I do NOT worship the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation.

Twenty years ago I remember Pat Buchanan saying that American soldiers fought and died in World War II so that Europe would be opened up to third world immigration.

Yes, Pat Buchanan.  Yes, that is what he said.

No, Pat Buchanan is not a member of the Greatest Generation.  But at least a hundred thousand members of the Greatest Generation heard him say their buddies died for third world immigration.

Not one single member of the Greatest and Bravest generation had the guts to tell Pat, “My buddies fought for freedom.  They did NOT fight for third world immigration!”

What bothers me about the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation is not the braggarts who had no life since the War.   Most of them are not braggarts.

What is wrong with the self-declared Greatest Generation is not the clowns in the paper hats who say they fought the War to open up white countries to the third world.

What bothers me is that I have never heard one single member of the Greatest Generation who ever had the courage to say these words IN PUBLIC: “No, that is NOT what my buddies died for.”

Not one.

Ever.

EVER!!

 

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