The noise has lessened of late but you know how some people were touting Gen Y as the greatest generation? As I've said, it's been done before:
"The image of the famed 1960s anti-war movement as being fueled by idealism, representing the entire baby boomer generation, and ending the Vietnam War also received a sound thrashing at the Hillsdale symposium."".... it was not idealism that motivated the 1960s anti-war movement, but, rather, the military draft and the desire of adherents to avoid serving in Vietnam. What else accounted for the veritable disappearance of the once mighty anti-war movement after President Nixon ended the draft in 1973?....
Furthermore, far from representing the entire baby boomer generation, the anti-war movement constituted a societal fringe.... those out protesting the war represented only a fraction of the population.
As for ending the war itself, it was general war-weariness, as well as the fallout from failed political and military policies, that, according to Medved, were the true cause of its demise.
