The Milksop Generation by Allan J. Ashinoff

Europeans often claim that Americans have a unique disposition that differentiates us from all the other people of the earth. This proclivity, it is said, so exudes from Americans that, when abroad, we are immediately identifiable. To a large number of Europeans, Americans are viewed as reckless myopic self-righteous cowboys. They call this perception the American swagger and Euro’s – like their liberal American pupils- are repulsed by it.When one thinks of the American swagger traits like confidence, self assuredness, power, and perhaps even a degree of moral superiority come to mind. But one word that has never been associated with America, the US Armed forces, the American people, or its leadership is the word coward. This feeling was thrust into the American social consciousness in the 1960’s and has remained hidden in shame for nearly thirty years. Today those who disgraced both themselves and their nation out of fear in the 1960’s are the ‘establishment’.

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