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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 1602750" data-attributes="member: 3400">One thing to remember is that Cap is an anachronism. As Wasp pointed out a couple times, his behavior is very different from what would normally be expected out of today's sensibilities. For Cap, WWII is a very recent memory and a certain amount of institutional callousness had to be endured. Compare losing 1000 or so men in one day on a beach landing with how we mope about casualties in Iraq. In WWII, the US had to get used to that kind of scale. Cap is still used to it.Keep in mind also that Cap's generation and the generation of leaders at the time of WWII tended to use violent intervention for foreign policy from the Dominican Republic to Vietnam, dallied with Nazis in the formation of covert intelligence services, sold out Poland and Czechoslovakia to preserve a wartime alliance with the Soviets, and were far less likely to prescribe anger counseling over a good, old-fashioned butt-kicking. When you come through a massive war against a regime like the Nazi regime, you find that a certain amount of moral flexibility and expedience is important to meeting more important goals. It's the experience of getting burned by the intervention in Vietnam and the social upheaval that went with it that has helped us change  as a society to the point where some of these things aren't as publically acceptible any more. Cap has no connection with that particular zeitgeist and thus seems, to a more modern eye, nasty.</blockquote>

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