scoutpilot
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DS and DW went to ChiTown for spring break. I inserted The Hurt Locker in the Netflix queue. I never watched it because I have generally blow off any film that Hollywood praises, based on aesthetics not necessarily ideology.
I was curious about a couple of things. The first is accuracy. I assume from the posts that it is close enough. The second is if our DS's and DW's, who aspire to officer ranks really understand who does the work and who makes up the casualty lists. Based on the obits in my medium sized midwestern newspaper, it is mostly enlisted persons being killed or maimed by IED's, ambushes, suicide bombs, etc. which seem to be the weapon of choice of our adversaries. The third is, did Ahmed Chalabi, a native Baghdadi and college chum of Paul Wolfowitz give Dick Cheney and Wolfowitz any idea about what awaited American troops when he did his sales job.
Kind of makes me wonder why we waste our time talkiing about Drone fighters and F-35's.
I don't even know where to start with this.