The MSM and Roger Ebert, lefty and notorious gay-friendly movie reviewer continue to hype anything anti-war or anti-military.
I will be skipping this pile of horse dung, so-called film.
What a wet dream. Any soldier who admired Jane Fonda was a traitor, just like that POS Kerry. they deserved to be lined up and shot.
The article is correct that American military morale declined dramatically towards the end of the war.
Among other things, who wants to be the last soldier to die in a lost war?
There was also a huge drug problem in the military during this period.
I remember that one of the big 3 abcnbccbs caught an army patrol, on film, in VietNam, near the end, refusing to go down a path. the MSM was calling it mutiny.
He's stopped reviewing movies and devolved into a mere huckster; and like so many other Libs lately, he is willfully squandering what little good will he had built up over the years.
I wonder how his sponsors will feel about it.
Are any of these troops at the Fonda gatherings like the 'troops' that John Kerry brought along on his anti-war whistle stops?
Ask Roger Fatbert why are enlistment levels surpassing expectations. I stopped reading his reviews. He was at U of Va
hosting a film series. I remeber him saying that european voters were much more sophisticated than americans. After that I avoided his reviews. It was at that time when Siskel was ill
and Michael Medeved appeared on Chicago radio... a breath of fresh air.
I found Michael Medeved's reviews to be more insightful and
agreeable.
this guy's supposed to be a film critic? yet he doesn't know that the line concerning civilians spitting on soldiers is to be found near the end of "First Blood" - the FIRST Rambo movie (the actual title of the second movie is "Rambo: First Blood PART TWO")?
As this guy doesn't even know the subject of his own field of specialty, why the hell should anyone heed his other assertions of "fact"?
For the record, the spitting-on-soldiers story was well established in my youth in the 1970's, to the point that I recall "sensitive" hippie types BRAGGING that they had DONE this.
"The Swift Boat Veterans incredibly tried to deny John Kerry's patriotism."
Ebert: liberal leftist.
Your honor, I rest my case.
Rog, your side won that war. Get over it.
"The Swift Boat Veterans incredibly tried to deny John Kerry's patriotism."
Typical Lefty misrepresentation. The SBV rightfully questioned his veracity about his own conduct, and his accusations against US troops. And there wasn't anything "incredible" in doing so.
That's not an untrue statement, though. And the long-term effects on recruitment are evident, as many people who would have signed up as only a Home Guard (without overseas deployment except following military attack by another nation) no longer have a place to enlist.
If we are going to be an active participant in overseas nation-building/interventionism, then we need a larger active-duty regular military, not the current alignment of National Guardsmen for offensive combat. Besides, the current regulations have limits on redeployment of Guardsmen, such that we are having to dig deeply into inactive reservists, like the 70-year-old sent to Afghanistan in 2004.
He gave the Gore movie 4 stars. Nuff said.
“Sir! No Sir!”
“Are you allowed to eat jelly doughnuts, Private Ebert?”
“Sir! No Sir!”
“And why not, Private Ebert?”
“Sir, because I’m too heavy, Sir.”
“Because you are a disgusting fatbody, Private Ebert!”
Not if Fatso has anything to say about it.
Boy, there's three winners. I can't wait to see that film.
Analyzed by Marshall Michel in his book The Eleven Days of Christmas, and proven not true. There were a few guys who went DNIF for questionable reasons, but they were fewer in number or percentage of aircrew that did so during the great bomber slaughter over Germany in 1943.
And in San Diego, sailors on an aircraft carrier tried to promote a local vote on whether their ship should be allowed to sail for Vietnam.
I was in San Diego for that: they were confused young men with some disciplinary action pending against them who got played for idiots by the local antiwar activists.
I think the situation was that they flew the same flight plan at the same time every night and the North Vietnamese were shooting down more and more planes. They objected to not having any flexibility. The pilots won and no missions were canceled... from what I have read.
Roger Ebert eats ----.