[lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Mon Apr 10 14:25:24 PDT 2006



> 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



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