Linda Meyer: Sad to realize we’ve raised a generation of weenies

Re “Our View: Lessons we can learn from response to Pearl Harbor” (Page 9A, Dec. 7): It is sad to see the generation of today. I sit back and watch the college students, or for that matter anyone of this generation, become afraid of being called a name. When we were called names, we stood up for ourselves. We didn’t look for safe spaces.

It’s sad to see what America has become, a generation of “weenies.” The president stands up there and gives his speech after the Paris attacks, and says this is a setback. After the slaughter in San Bernardino, instead of focusing on the people who were murdered, he told us not to be biased against Muslims. How about the poor families that lost loved ones?

It is time to stop coddling radical terrorists. As Eric Bolling said, “It’s time for tough talk.” People will write in and say this sounds barbaric. Well, how barbaric is it to stand wipe out innocent people at a party?

Tom Brokaw wrote of the “greatest generation” that they “fought not for fame or recognition, but because it was the right thing to do.” How many more innocent people will get killed before before we do the right thing?

This story was originally published December 16, 2015 at 12:52 PM with the headline "Linda Meyer: Sad to realize we’ve raised a generation of weenies."