Quote Originally Posted by Rob Thornton View Post
It will require charismatic, political leadership to shake people loose from i-pods, game boys, and self-absorbtion as long as things are perceived as being good enough.
I don't think leadership is going to do the trick; the problem is with the fundamental values the young generation learn as they grow up. The households are too often broken, and it produces selfish, materialistic, people stuck permanently in adolescence. Our society seems to have shed all the necessary beliefs and ideas that form good citizens. Good soldiers (and citizens) are made at the hearth first, not on the drill field.