[Travis McGee]

“Dances with Elves,” AKA, “White man bad, blue elf good.”

I’m reminded of a book about life in the Soviet Red Army, in the bad old days of the 1980s or so. The troops were shown propaganda films of the Evil American Army in Vietnam. But the propaganda showings did not go according to plan. Every time they showed the Huey’s and Cobras doing air assaults, the Russian soldiers cheered wildly. “Kill the mujadeen!” they all screamed in solidarity with the heli-borne American grunts!

[AppyPappy]

Yeah, it’s just a good vs evil thing. I try not to read too much into it.

I watched 2012 over Thanksgiving. Everyone tried to ‘splain me the politics but in the end, it was just a big ole pile of disaster porn. The worst part of the flick was there weren’t enough subwoofers in the place.

[RJR_fan]

I went to Ukraine in 1992 with some interesting lay missionaries — about half of our group was vietnam war vets with a desire to reach out to veterans of Russia’s dirty little losing war in Afghanistan. How little we knew that their vietnam would go on to become our Afghanistan ...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Showed my four year old grandson the helicopter assault scene from Apocalypse Now during yesterday's snow storm, before the kick off of the Pats game. He picked up his plastic toy soldiers and huddled them in an inverted toy parachute that came with his Apache model as the loud speakers blared the Flight of the Valkyrie. Colonel Kilgore would have cried for joy.

When my grandson is twenty no one will be watching Avatar and Apocalypse Now will still be compelling.

[redgolum]

Read a book about their Afghan war called “The Forgotten War”.

Had to dig it up and read it again recently. Afghanistan is a game to us, but it was next door to them. Some cross border raids and such.