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Entry: Generation 911 Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/generation_911#4750 Post contents: Hoo Boy. I was just preparing to write an unreservedly, glowingly laudatory comment in praise of Mr Ross and this brilliant article of his, UNTIL I got distracted when I saw the comment by "John Kovarik" (the surname COMBINED with his ungenerous comment, to my experienced ears, smacks of a typical son of aggrieved McCarthyite-LATE-White-immigrants-to-America, those second and third generation Americans who descend from the half-barbarian peasant stock of Central and Eastern Europe, the kind who supported the Irish-German Joe McCarthy while he went on a rampage trying to prove that he and his kind were more "American" than the OLD Anglo-American stock whom they resented and envied...) ...Ah, as I was saying, Mr "Kovarik's" (how the f--- is that name spelled in the language of my English ancestors?) - Mr Kovarik's nasty comment here appeared like a bit of doggie-poo in front of an otherwise pristine hotel. I can see, that Mr Ross does not need much more "maturation", but Mr Kovarik (have I spelled your impossible name right in my own English language, to which your family are a newcomers?) - Mr Kovarik needs a hell of a lot more maturation than Mr Ross, our new (Jewish) colleague among the writers on Taki's blog. Now from me to you, Mr Ross: 1. You write beautifully. And your writing is all the more impressive in view of your youth. You are exactly half my age (your 22 to my 44), and yet you write more beautifully and more logically than I can do at twice your age. 2. I agree with 90 percent of what you wrote here, which you have written more eloquently than I could ever do. 3. Your courage (as a public Jew) in publishing your article here is impressive, considering how a considerable (but minority) number of our commenters just hate Jews, even though they will cover up their hatred of Jews with myriad disclaimers. But rest assured that our editors, Taki and FJ Sarto, are enemies of all antisemites. You came to the right place, here; THIS blog is an enemy of all neo-nazis, just like Taki's father was an enemy of the Nazis. You, Sir, Mr Ross - honourable American patriot, and Jew - YOU belong here! Please stick around, even if a small handful of antisemitic commenters here might make you want to feel like you need a long hot cleansing bath after you step into their shitty comments left like doggie-poops... 4. What you wrote about "Generation X" and how most of them become neocons, resonates with me. I'm so glad you pointed it out; it needs to be discussed more. I voted for Walter Mondale in 1984 - at age 21 - the first Presidential election in which I ever voted. I voted for Mondale because even at that tender age, I was horrified by the vulgarity of so many soft, spoiled American college students of my generation who voted for Reagan as CHICKENHAWKS! When I was 21, in 1984, most of my college classmates "supported" Reagan and his stupid wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua (and the US role in Afghanistan, which was started by bloody Jimmy Carter), and they all pretended to be "patriots", while I kept asking them, "yeah, well, if you really support America's intervention in Afghanistan and Nicaragua, then WHY DON'T YOU ENLIST in the armed forces? It's one thing to say you "support" Reagan and his shitty little wars in distant jungles - but if you REALLY support Reagan, then why the f--- don't you leave our nice little college and ENLIST in America's armed forces?" And in 1984, none, not a single one of those little Chickenhawks I went to college with, had an answer for that, except to say, "You're a dick." Which I am in some ways ;-), but that's beside the point. 5. In 1984, when I was 21, I found out that my name had gotten onto the FBI list of potential subversives - because at that age I had protested in public against America's meddling in El Salvador and Nicaragua. (I know this because my older sister - 14 years older than I - applied for a job as a Federal prosecutor in that year, and when they were doing a security check on her, the FBI sent agents to my countryside native valley in Pennsylvania to ask questions about me.) And now some commenters on THIS blog accuse me of being a "neocon fellow traveler" because I say the war against Hitler was necessary, even while I say all American wars after 1945 were unnecessary, especially the disastrous one in Iraq today. Go figure. The FBI have a big dossier on me because I protested against Reagan's wars in Central America, and later I protested against the war in Iraq in 2003. And now some commenters here call me a "neocon fellow traveler", after I've done more in public - and lost more, personally and materially - by resisting the Neocon cabal than many of THEM (my accusers on this blog) did in 2003. Ugh. 6. Anyway, Mr Ross, for what it's worth, as one of Taki's regular writers I join Taki and FJ Sarto in welcoming you enthusiastically to our "band of brothers." You write beautifully and truthfully, in ways we, and the world, desperately need right now. Shalom, Salaam Aliukum, Pax vobiscum, And a big glass of vodka from me, John Sent at: 2008 12 02