Actually, the “Wolverines” asked the Air Force pilot, “What about Europe?” The pilot said, “They’re sitting this one out. I guess they figure twice in one century is enough. All except England, and they won’t last very long.”
Patrick Swazye character asks, “WHO is on our side?”
The pilot answers, “600 million screaming chinamen.”
Another kid says, “The last I heard, there were a billion screaming chinamen.”
The pilot answers, “There were!”
Now I understand the context of that scene, China was on a real “charm offensive” in the 80s to convince us they were really our friends, and an ally against the Soviet Union.
We were fooled.
Exactly notice he mentions the Chinese as our great ally and no one else
Yes, that was the line... And then the F-15 pilot, played by none other than our buddy Powers Boothe, threw his whiskey drink in the campfire...