People were more honest in the past in the U.S. when they were willing to die for what they believed

 I grew up in the 1950s and was 21 in 1969. This was a completely different era than now and trying to even compare it to now is basically impossible because now is so very different.

It's sort of like: "People lived on different planets than they do now".

The polarization was even more extreme (and often violent too) unlike now where it is almost never violent. But in the 1960s violence was still happening a lot whether it was cops beating college age kids over the head with billy clubs until many of them died or they just shot them like at Kent State.

So, now the war between the factions of Americans was often violent and now it's mostly just lip service. I don't know which is worse really, people dying or just people talking shit they don't mean on both sides.

Because then, if you were willing to die for whatever you believed (whatever it was) people had a certain integrity even if they often were full of shit then too. But now, people say all sorts of things with no meaning because they aren't willing to die for what they believed like in the 1960s and 1970s.

I suppose you have to say that soldiers still die for what they believe. But, what are they really fighting for anyway?

I'm not sure what fighting in Afghanistan is all about anymore. Are You?

Other than saying it's a police action I'm thinking it really has no meaning in the long haul because eventually likely someone like the Taliban will win there like they always have for the last several thousand years.

If you study Afghanistan no foreign power ever stayed there very long and Afghanistan is one of the many reasons the old Soviet Union Collapsed along with the dropping price of oil done so well to mess up the Soviet Union by Saudi Arabia.

So, Russia could again financially collapse as a nation because of the low oil prices now too when combined with all the deaths likely unreported from the coronavirus in Russia and China.