A couple of points.
Previous wars were fought by citizens familiar with hardship at many levels, raised with a level of respect for their neighbors. (I recognize this is a broad brush, but there is truth to it just the same) We are now two generations into a period where government has largely removed real hardship from the vocabulary (saw a posted picture the other day of a guy in a soupline, on his cellphone). Expectations of what government can do are very high in most people under 40.
We also are in a time where well-raised, affluent kids of good families think nothing of going out to the local club in a group; not to get drunk or picked up, but to get into a fight with absolute strangers. Many of the inhibitions (manners) of former generations are largely gone. How will this effect peoples’ reactions?
