I think the movie was pretty good.
US Marines in general, are civilian 18-19 year old kids, brainwashed, trained to think they are some kind of elite, dressed in combat gear and sent off to war.
Loads of the kids signing up for duty are from poor social groups, there is nothing else. There are few to no preparations or training on how to deal with battle-stress. Requiters tempt with bonuses and "career-opportunities" to get youth to sign up for a contract that binds them to be shipped off to anywhere for a certain period of time.
And for psych-screening? Seems to be none-existent, you would sign-up and ship-off any idiot that is willing, the average quality and intelligence-level isn't impressive at all.
Most green US Marines are annoying and aggravating, they think they are hot-shots and "elite". In reality they are nothing but trained civilians at that point, they are "regular army greenhorns" with little or no discipline (cannon-fodder doesn't need much really, other than the ability to take orders and to execute those orders).
Heck, conscripts in my own country have tossed the US Marines out to the sea, every year, for decades during winter-war exercises, so the ego of the "legendary" US Marines is certainly bigger than their actual abilities.
The war in Iraq was a failure from the get-go, there is no question about it, it's now a failed state, spewing out terror all over the world. The world tried to protest in 2003 against the invasion, but you all stood behind your crown-idiot-of-the-millennium president, G.W.Bush and let him do it and you even re-elected the illiterate retard, shame on you.
It's a lot of the same thing regarding 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, you piss and moan about it, as you were innocent.
I've seen countless shows dealing with those tragedies and not a single one of them tries to find the reason why it actually happened. You conclude that "they" hate your freedom and way of life and whatnot and mourn your death to a sickening point.
The truth is, that you need to realize that Japan attacked pearl-harbor because of necessity (you were using sanctions and boycotts to hurt the Japanese economy and trade) and 9/11 was an answer to the old US politics in the middle-east, costing hundreds of thousands of lives over decades. In that respect, 9/11 was not only a pretty well-executed operation, it was also coming your way for a long time, but you were unable to see if, because Americans in general don't know diddly squat about the world.
You have more of the same coming your way, the US has been fiddling and killing civilians for 70 years now, all over the world. Most of south-America hold a pretty narly grudge, most of the middle east too, Europe is fed up with your foreign policy police role, Russia is not taking any more crap and Asia? Who knows, more and more countries are looking to China as a partner there, way to go with your frigging battle-groups, enforcing US-will to people who don't want it.
You should pay attention to what your government is doing, and has been doing for 70 years, you are only 5% of the world population after all, and it will explain a lot of the resentment you may experience when you flaunt your star-spangled-banner outside your own borders.
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SteverB
8 years ago
Yes, yes, yes, yes, and YES! So sick of my country, the U.S., sticking their nose into everybody else's business for no good reason other than oil or "winning." The U.S. is a failing country due to its leaders' bad decisions and people who think that shoving democracy down people's throats that don't want it is a good thing. NOW, we have this idiot in the White House, surrounding himself with more idiots, and to top it off, a mostly idiot Congress that couldn't care less about the people they're supposed to be representing. Trump has already pissed off Mexico, put immigrants and refugees in danger, and turned the clock back to at least the 1960s. Maybe next week, he'll start a pissing match with Canada. Another 9,11, only worse, is on its way and no one seems to see that except people outside the country. It is a sh!tshow, just like it's been for years.
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