“The Emergence of a Separate American Warrior Caste” :: Gates of Vienna

Matt Sanchez is embedded with the troops in Iraq. Via Pajama Media, he observes:

As a media embed in the United States military, a big part of my job is to observe, but as I watched the members of the 96th Transportation Company out of San Antonio, Texas, work tirelessly in preparation for their mission, I got to thinking that something was missing. Something was definitely different between wartime Americans deployed overseas and peacetime Americans hunkered down in the United States. And then it struck me, like the game show contestant who beats his opponents to the buzzer, what was missing from the time I left the United States, only a week before, was the sense of despair, frustration and self-centered complaining.
Someone tell me when the American public went from being the can-doers to the will-whiners?

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