The Obama White House suffers from "the '60s disease." The affliction seems
to be terminal. The president's men — and women — are mostly boomers, spoiled,
greedy and self-centered, nurtured and indulged in the decade of the 1960s, when
the culture first began to rot.
The boomers taught each other many things, how to turn up the volume on their
"music," where to find the best pot and where to crash to smoke themselves into
mellow stupefaction, how to avoid taking responsibility for their blunders, and
above all contempt for the nation's institutions and in particular for the men
and women who wear the uniform.
The Clintons made no bones about their contempt for that uniform, even after
Bubba took Hillary to the White House, where she treated her bodyguards like
servants and the assorted White House military aides no better. Bubba had spent
his youth dodging the draft and wore his contempt for the suckers who went to
Vietnam as if it were the Medal of Honor, which he didn't know much about except
that it comes with a colorful ribbon. Bubba as the commander in chief finally
learned to return a military salute without sticking his thumb in his eye, but
it took awhile. Khaki still makes Hillary's nose wrinkle, as if she smells
something on the bottom of her shoe.
Barack Obama mostly grew up abroad and never learned much about America, and
it shows. As an impressionable young man, he hung out with the likes of Bill
Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist bomber, and was mentored by scruffy Marxists
who drifted in and out of the house, teaching him that his country — America,
not Indonesia — wasn't worth much, but with a lot of work it might be
transformed into something as noble as the People's Republics of Lower Volta or
Upper Slobbovia. But the military must always be kept on a short
leash.
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