Posted on 05/24/2005 2:27:36 PM PDT by wagglebee
Of course, a more accurate comparison would be that the US were the French, the new Iraqi government were the patriots and Saddam's henchmen were the Redcoats. After all, we did not run Iraq prior to the invasion, unless you belong to the "grainy Rummy/Saddam handshake photograph" school of history...
I think they do know it, and that's precisely why they've allied themselves with the enemy.
I know what book is now going on my reading list.
It also seemed that at that time during the mid 90s, Hollywood was really holding up developmentally delayed or pre-adolescent narrators as icons of purity, honesty and virtue.
Mr. Groom sounds like he's got some 'nards, though. I might have to give him a second chance.
"1776, released today, is about the darkest year in American history. It is filled with military mistakes and the heroism of ragtag rebels. McCullough, always careful to stick to the past, draws no comparisons with the war in Iraq. But many readers will be prompted to think about our soldiers, then and now."
Plus the article title says the book is a "timely" history lesson.
He also wrote a great book about the Ypes campaign in WWI. I enjoyed it.
Moral equivalency is standard operating procedure for the left. It's the only way they can sleep at night after supporting totalitarian communist regimes that killed over 100 million civilians in a single century and still stand with murderous totalitarian dictators against the United States.
The book is really, really different from the movie. It's been a very long time since I read it, but I remember that the relationship with Jenny is completely different. He gropes her at the movie theater and after that she hardly talks to him. They weren't childhood friends. The book is not nearly as sappy as the movie.
I think it's a cute little movie. I always want to smack the hippy when he tells Jenny he hit her because of President Johnson.
Hey maybe we are not mad enough yet. Four years after Pearl Harbor, both the huge military might of Germany and Japan were defeated. Four years after 9/11 against car bombs, IEDs and insurgents, it's not over yet. Maybe when we get mad enough, we still start the draft, sell war bonds to finance the war, start rationing, and get Rosie the Riveter back into war production.
I love Forrest Gump the movie, but as warm and fuzzy as it seems it has horrible dark elements in it, some treated as humor. His mother's devotion is illustrated by her having sex with a degenerate principal to get Forrest in school. His love interest is an incest victim, becomes a drug addict, slut, hippie, reforms but dies of AIDS.
That's possible, but I'm referring to activist, organized atheists, like Madeliene O'Hara who got school prayer outlawed, or Michael Newdow, the atheist who is trying to strip away "under God" from the Pledge because it 'offends' his atheist sensitivities.
I don't like judging individuals, because you never know what's in a man's heart. But I have no problem whatsover with judging any organized agenda that these individuals belong to or support if it's trying to tear down my faith and my country.
I've always felt that we haven't made enough of a comparison between Pearl Harbor and 9/11. The American public hasn't been sufficiently mobilized to fight terrorism. And that helps the anti-American Left gain some traction.
It was like being in the mind of some goofy, aging, Hollywood boomer who makes a living as a "creative." Seen from that perspective, it was somewhat amusing to watch, given that the protagonist was quite literally retarded. They were perhaps a little more honest than they intended to be.
We did get Lt. Dan., who was really the only reasonable persona in the whole film. Glad that actor is doing well, though if he keep up supporting the troops they will no doubt toss him out soon.
I also like the bit about the smiley face.
But all in all it captures the left's response to those times: High self regard and a focus on the trivial and the superficial in the face of monumental events.
I think to be the great irony of the "Me Generation" that the period in their youth that they hold in such high regard will be held against them as evidence of their irresponsibility by subsequent generations.
Not that it will bother them: I fully expect to see "protest rallies" in the coming years where the entire crew is marching along with the aid of walkers.
Forrest Gump will be the movie that in 20 years people will be looking at the Academy Awards and scratching their heads and saying "WHAT were they THINKING?"
Overall it seemed a pointless movie; wasn't "ha ha" funny either. Escapes me what the attraction of it was.
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