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Much as I enjoy The Weekly Standard, I must say their new cover piece, "The 9/11 Generation," isn’t very impressive. Conservatives, who love to bash the news media–which often deserves it– nevertheless need to hold their own to higher standards, as well. This article, about a generation that’s willing to fight, is long on generalities and short on sources. Only four sources, to be exact, and only three of them arguably of the "9/11 Generation." The editor apparently believes those three are sufficient to characterize the whole. Really, now. I’m sure the men and women who join these days, knowing there’s a good chance they’ll wind up in harm’s way, deserve our commendation. I’m also sure they aren’t the "children," or the "victims" or the "gullible" or the "hopeless" that liberal pols often term them. There apparently are enough of them to keep the military meeting or exceeding its recruiting quotas. But, as it happens, I know three members of the "9/11 Generation," and they dismiss my suggestion that they join the military. They refuse to fight what they call Bush’s war. See how easy it is to refute The Weekly Standard? It shouldn’t be.