Recently, Britain’s The Economist magazine began a piece with “One of the perks of getting old is that you are allowed to talk nonsense about the young.”  Since I am old, I shall claim my perk. What bothers me the most is that most young Americans do not share President Abraham Lincoln’s belief, expressed in an 1862 message to Congress, that America is “the last best hope of earth.” In fairness, given the sorry state of history instruction in this country, manny of them probably never heard of Lincoln’s phrase. My other impressions have to do with: (1) the failure of young Americans to live by basic economic principles, (2) their apparent unconcern about our open southern borders, (3) the unanticipated consequences of an all-volunteer military, (4) their general silence about rogue states and terrorist entities, (5) their belief that the Roman proverb “He who wishes peace should prepare for war” is...(Read Full Post)