(CNSNews.com) – When asked to explain the "new battlefield" faced by the U.S. military, Gen. Robert B. Neller, 37th commandant of the United States Marine Corps, said on Tuesday that the enemy's capabilities mean that for the first time since World War II American troops are threatened by air power.
"When's the last time the American military force worried about being bombed by enemy air?" Neller told CNSNews.com at an event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. "World War II?"
One of the unavoidable consequences of youth is the tendency to think behavior we see today has always been. I'd like to dispute that vision, at least as it pertains to black people.
I graduated from Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin High School in 1954. Franklin's predominantly black students were from the poorest North Philadelphia neighborhoods. During those days, there were no policemen patrolling the hallways. Today close to 400 police patrol Philadelphia schools. There were occasional after-school fights — rumbles, as we called them — but within the school, there was order. In contrast with today, students didn't use foul language to teachers, much less assault them.
