Commenter Terry Hastings emails me this WaPo piece by Geoffrey Lambert, a retired major general who commanded the Army Special Forces Command (Airborne) from 2001 to 2003, who under the headline “Don’t Politicize Our Soldiers,” does just that: I was a soldier in 1969, and I witnessed misguided students and adults attacking individual soldiers because of their disgust with national policy. In the ‘60s the purveyors of hate on the

Given my wont to write longish posts on the problems facing classical liberalism as a result of the structural assaults on its most basic tenets from within our university system—and given my critics’ wont to ridicule me for suggesting such is more than some paranoid phantasm (another wingnut fantasy, like the “liberal” media canard, only this one promoted by the arch-evil rightwing propagandist David Horowitz)—I’ve decided to bring on an