{"id":63210,"date":"2015-12-11T07:59:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63210"},"modified":"2015-12-10T14:07:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T19:07:29","slug":"millennials-are-fine-with-you-going-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63210","title":{"rendered":"Millennials are fine with you going to Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but not them, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/12\/10\/459111960\/millennials-want-to-send-troops-to-fight-isis-but-not-serve?utm_source=facebook.com&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=npr&#038;utm_term=nprnews&#038;utm_content=2037\">National Public Radio<\/a> reporting on a Harvard Institute of Politics poll.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this most recent survey, 60 percent of the 18- to 29-year-olds polled say they support committing U.S. combat troops to fight ISIS. But an almost equal number (62 percent) say they wouldn&#8217;t want to personally join the fight, even if the U.S. needed additional troops.<\/p>\n<p>The disconnect in joining the fight comes down to how millennials feel about the government writ large, according to Harvard IOP Polling Director John Della Volpe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m reminded of the significant degree of distrust that this generation has about all things related to government,&#8221; said Della Volpe. &#8220;And I believe if young people had a better relationship with government &#8230; they&#8217;d be more open to serving.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, no, it has nothing to do with the &#8220;relationship&#8221; youngsters have with their government and everything to do with how they expect government to do everything for them with no commitment. Politicians have told them that a free college education is a &#8220;right&#8221;. They expect that college should be a zone that is safe from judgement and criticism. They want to be &#8220;protected&#8221; from images and opinions that differ from those they&#8217;ve been spoon-fed by their teachers. This generation is comfortable with the idea of sending someone else to fight and die for them while they vegetate on the couch with their video games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but not them, according to National Public Radio reporting on a Harvard Institute of Politics poll. &hellip; <a title=\"Millennials are fine with you going to Iraq\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63210\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Millennials are fine with you going to Iraq<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-hate-hippies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}