[lbo-talk] AFP: Macho man look is out of style

[andie nachgeborenen]

I actually do know a former SEAL, my late dad's best
friend, they were an odd mix, my dad a liberal
Democratic Jewish peacenik type (a WWII vet, invalided
out, never saw combat), and Jack a conservative
Republican fundamentalist Christian military type who
says he fought in Vietnam, Grenada, and Gulf War I,
maybe elswhere. Jack and his wife) are wonderful
people, and I can see why they were good friends with
my folks despite the political and religious
divergences, but I don't want to know or even think
about the stuff he's done. Seems to have been involved
in Operation Phoeni in Vietnam (the assasination
program in the late 60s that wiped out the leadership
of the NLF), for example. I only infer this from
things he's said by the way. My teenage daughter
recently grilled him about his friendship with my dad
and about his military activities, she'd make some
interrogator herself. jks

--- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:


> A female friend of mine has noticed, she says, that
> you can't get into a group of more than 5 or 6 men
> before at least one of them either 1) has claimed to
> have been in Special Ops/Navy SEALS/CIA/Black Ops,
> or
> 2) "knows someone" who was in one of these bad-ass
> groups, and who then begin to crow about all the
> assorted accoutrements thereof, namely,
> assassination
> training, special weapons training, etc.
> 
> Of course, I live in Texas. One's bad ass-edness
> seems
> to be relative to one's proximity to some shady
> govt.
> project. I'm sure an LBO get together would prove
> differently.
> 
> Also, I began to have a weird theory about the movie
> Predator having produced so many political figures.
> Carl Weathers of Rambo fame is also in the movie. I
> think he may be maneuvering for political office as
> well?
> 
> -B.
> 
> --
> 
> Andy F. wrote:
> 
> > Has anybody noticed in this type of movie that the
> bad
> > guys are often ex-CIA/Special Ops gone mercenary,
> > often after engaging in some sort of fictional but
> > historically-based viciousness?  I'm thinking of
> the
> > CIA heroin smugglers in Lethal Weapon, the
> > ex-"advisors" to the Latin military dictator in
> Die
> > Hard II...  There was another one that involved
> Air
> > America...  
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