Book on class disconnect in American society

[Stan]

Said one mother to me, “I’ve raised my sons to be sensitive to
others, and to be critical thinkers, so I don’t think they’d be well
suited for the military.” Critical thinking is of course the byword of
liberal arts education, and the military is the imagined antithesis of
it, where one merely, unthinkingly, follows orders. —Los Angeles doctor and mother

Downloading the sample chapter (#2) and commencing with the above just pisses me off !

Not because she's a doctor, rather she's a mother and that's supposed to mean that our mothers raised their son's to be emotionally insensitive or callous ? My mother worked two jobs to send the four of us through Catholic grade school. She was very proud of our father's 23 years in the Navy and our Uncles' services in the Marines and Army in Vietnam. She would cite that often to my brother and I, when she referred to "Officers and Gentlemen".

Steven J. Naplan, who served as director for democracy and human rights at the Clinton White House’s National Security Council, wrote:
“Privacy” is the smokescreen behind which Mother Jones and
these critics attempt to mask their discomfort with the U.S.
military—the same military which saved hundreds of thousands
of Africans from certain starvation in the early 1990s,
saved hundreds of thousands of Bosnian and Kosovar Muslims
from mass murder just a few years later, and which today
trains the young men and women who risk and sometimes
lose their lives to protect us all from the terrorists who would
happily take the lives of every last Mother Jones editor, writer,
and subscriber. . . .

Amen !