Friday afternoon heading home blogging

Noah in the Danger Room highlights a great new Navy report designed to highlight how unhip and out of touch their HR folks are.

There is lots of good stuff in his wrap up, but most interesting to me was that 32% of the 'millenials' surveyed self described themselves as less patriotic because of the war in Iraq.

During Vietnam most folks opposed to the war considered themselves patriotic no matter what the other side said. Today you often hear those in the chattering class who have opposed the war at various times continue to speak of themselves as the guardians of 'America'.

That these kids are willing to cop to being 'less patriotic' tells me two things. First, proponents have succeeded in framing support for the war as a with us or against us proposition. Second, and more frightening, this age group has responded by saying 'fine, if that's the case then fuck America.'

Sure this is bad news for Gates plan to add 50,000 troops, but it seems really bad for the future of American civil society if it becomes a long term trend.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/09/omg-navy-calls-.html