[lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran

[Dennis Perrin]

> posted about this yesterday. one of my 'other sons' wants out because he's 
> sick of the rape culture in the marines. there's a lot of talk about the 
> guys raping women back home, bragging it up amongst each other. lots of 
> other crap, but it all makes him sick and he wants out. he said it all 
> came to a head, of course, because the rumor's been that they're all 
> gearing up for bombing Iran. I dismissed it at the time as hype, that was 
> two weeks aog, but there was a small part of me that said, "figures."

As Jack Nicholson's cynical sailor put it in "The Last Detail," via Robert 
Towne's script (JN's best performance, in my hum.):

"Marines are really assholes, you know that? It takes a certain kind of a 
sadistic temperament to be a Marine."

Dennis