Does anyone know what we're supposed to call this decade? Is it the 2000s? The twenty-ohs? We're coming up on the last year of it, and I still have no idea. Personally, I always liked the "oughts," as in, "Back in ought-six, I ate a brick of cheddar cheese in one sitting."
But perhaps the best reason to call it the oughts is that one is left with the sense that this decade ought to have been about something, and yet it really doesn't feel that way.
I disagree. Looking back (that's always how times are remembered) this decade will be about the war against Islamofascism. The war in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places. The era - when kids talk to their parents about it - will be about the question "what did you do in the war, daddy?"
This era will be remembered and divided between the volunteers and their sdupporters who fought a violent, deadly, cruel ideology driven by religious hatred. On the other side were those for whom living was the highest good. Whose moral “gland” was missing and who substituted for that a legalistic scrupulousness that demanded submission.
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