[lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran

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My late father in law, one of the most honorable,
gentle, and decent men I have ever known -- and
utterly respectful to women -- was a Marine in World
War II. He'd volunteered before the war for the same
reason that kids volunteer now, because he was poor
and the service was a job. His unit was the first
posted to Pearl Harbor aftyer the attack. He fought
through some of the worst battles of the Pacific, and
never talked about it. I have no doubt that he saw and
maybe did things that were unspeakable; he had
nighmares about the war until he died a few years ago.
I have never known anyone who hated war more than he
did, and he wasn't a pacifist either. But he was
always proud, for all that, to have been a Marine --
prouder of that than to have been the first in his
family to go to college or to have been one of the
first Jews at Princeton -- the Marines sent him there.
Assholes? Sadistic temperments? I've seen lots of
those in university professorships and big law firms.
Don't talk to me about the Marines.

--- Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:


> > 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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