I admit that it was a ludicrous fantasy.
I see from your personal info that you've been there, done that. From that you should realize what incredible logistic feats are required to mount a force in Iraq, a force that would only qualify as a "token" force in comparison to any WW2 campaign, Korea, or Vietnam. It took months of massive airlift and sealift to put the Desert Storm forces in place, and those forces were far, far less that was required for an invasion of Europe.
Red Dawn totally ignored logistics, and had a small force of taco benders conquering the American heartland. How did their token force of armored vehicles and aircraft get there after the initial raids alerted the US military to an invasion? How did the invaders assemble the massive forces required to fight the US military to a stalemate without being detected well in advance and interdicted?
I understand the appeal of the movie to American patriots, which I most certainly am, but it's a ludicrous jagoff fantasy scenario. The Japanese had the resources to invade the Left Coast after Pearl Harbor, but they were smart enough to know they would get bogged down in a hopeless war of attrition on the US mainland. No one else in contemporary history has had anywhere near the resources required to militarily invade the US on any scale at all. It's not going to happen and it can't happen.
I agree with you some what, however, when our food supply is suddenly uneatable beacause of toxins shipped in from overseas, and 95% of Americans depend on Kroger etal, most would bend over and accept any food from any source they thought was safe. They could quarantine and shut down every store that sold food tommorrow and my family could eat indefinatley. Since I brought that up, people better understand what farm subsidies and the federal land bank is all about before calling for an end to it.
I have never ever heard of anyone who claimed to laugh all the way through that movie.
That means that you are some wierd freakin’ oddball.
John Wayne was an actor and his characters were fictional, but anyone who disliked the Duke or laughed at Red Dawn is un American.
No, I’m not joking.