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...many, America now faces a brutal trade-off. We can favor the unregulated market, which “directs capital to the productive and the young,” or we can fancy welfare policies, which “direct resources to the vulnerable and the elderly.” We must choose whether to “siphon” resources from the vigorous, youthful, and innovative to the weak, aging, and ordinary...
We’re certainly at a historical fork in the road, but we need not choose between vitality and security. In the eyes of this young writer, America will be dynamic so long as we hope for a better tomorrow. We will be vibrant so long as we provide pathways to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for as many as possible and not just for a few. We will be youthful so long as we keep the dream alive. And we will be all the more vital if we pass reform...
Perhaps worst of all, the “vitality vs. security” argument masks a certain, purposeful interdependence in America, especially between generations. Democracy works on the premise that the social contract spans eras. Today’s young provide some protection for those who sacrificed in the past, and today’s elderly maintain a duty of active stewardship for those who will come in the future. There are live wires between us, and to describe the American contract of caring for citizens of other generations as a mere siphoning process, as Brooks does, is to cheapen...
...Eastern Europe in part to secure Moscow's support for an invasion of Japan. But to the public, FDR couched the war against the Axis as nothing less than a fight to "build a world founded upon four essential freedoms." In the face of fascism and tyranny, Roosevelt said, America would fight to promote a "moral order...
...Afghanistan is not nearly as vital to America's global interests as World War II was - and the Taliban's tyranny pales in comparison to that of the Third Reich. But while it's too simplistic to focus solely on the moral imperatives of the Afghan campaign, it would be just as shortsighted for Obama to ignore them altogether. History shows that Americans are far more willing to support a war that they believe is worthy of their ideals. If Obama hopes to rally the American people behind his strategy, his speech needs to convince them that...