Carter on Generation 9/11

Published: July 31, 2007, 2:34 pm

Phil Carter takes Dean Barnett to the blogosphere woodshed:In the same breathless style of reporting that exemplified Tom Brokaw's book "The Greatest Generation," last week's issue of the Weekly Standard featured a package of articles on the "9/11 Generation." In the lead article, Dean Barnett contrasts the current generation with the one that came before it:In the 1960s, history called the Baby Boomers. They didn't answer the phone. Confronted with a generation-defining conflict, the cold war, the Boomers--those, at any rate, who came to be emblematic of their generation--took the opposite path from their parents during World War II. Sadly, the excesses of Woodstock became the face of the Boomers' response to their moment of challenge. War protests where agitated youths derided American soldiers as baby-killers added no luster to their image. Few of the leading lights of that generation joined the military. Most calculated how they could avoid military service, and their

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