Posted on 07/19/2008 12:15:02 PM PDT by Lorianne
I kept thinking back to all those antimilitary movies I’d seen and to left-wing journals like the New York Times, which consistently highlight military abuses and failures while obscuring and downplaying military heroism and advances. The servicemen I was training with were clearly smart, expert, and committed to excellence in the defense of their country. They also seemed a lot more mentally stable than most of the screenwriters, journalists, and academics I know, though that’s not saying much. Yet Hollywood and our left-wing media, as well as our antimilitary professoriate, can be quite convincing when, say, they portray an isolated injustice like Abu Ghraib as evidence of systemic atrocity, or depict veterans as more likely to commit crimes than the rest of us, which statistically they’re not. Conversely, as spectacular as our armed forces are at the business of ousting real-life tyrants, they fall a little short when it comes to works of the imagination.
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It’s a damn good thing we don’t have to rely on the modern hollyweirdos to defend this nation!
It’ll probably never happen with the current crop of filmmakers (Mel Gibson might), but a pro-war, pro-military flick with lots of action would make some film company a fortune. But they refuse to make it...political reasons of course. I’ll bet these leftist jerks wonder why people don’t go to their anti-America abominations.
Mel Gibson? You mean that drunk who rants about smelly Neo-con Jooos forcing us into wars in the Middle East?
The military...... the only thing between us and them.
NO MILITARY...... NO US, PERIOD!
These morons just don’t get it.
Now you may say that capturing the imagination isn’t the job of our fighting forces. But this is America, remember: we’re a country of the imagination, a living state of mind. We’re not connected to one another by bloodlines or any depth of native memory. We’re the descendants of an idea that every generation has to learn to hold in its collective consciousness. More than in any other country, it matters in America who we think we are and what we believe we’re doing.
BTTT!
Darn, I’m jealous. So much that I wanted to say is in this article. Thanks for posting.
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