Quite interesting for several reasons:
-Nicely written, loaded with macabre humor, and on target as far as the "redneck" angle is concerned.
-Most unusual to find this kind of political/historical awareness of American crimes around the world, coming from an American!!!
-But unfortunately, he proves unable to draw the obvious conclusions from his awareness, and resorts to the usual jingoism and "let's fuck up the gooks responsible for this" attitude. Understandable in many ways, but...
Here is another one who expects a cakewalk through the Hindu Kush, and who is going to be cruelly disappointed. The dancing arab kids may not have legs to dance on in a near future, but a similar fate awaits many a Texas redneck volunteer who encounters the reality of combat, away from Duke-Nukem and his playstation.
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Quite interesting for several reasons: -Nicely written, loaded with macabre humor, and on target as far as the "redneck" angle is concerned. -Most unusual to find this kind of political/historical awareness of American crimes around the world, coming from an American!!! -But unfortunately, he proves unable to draw the obvious conclusions from his awareness, and resorts to the usual jingoism and "let's fuck up the gooks responsible for this" attitude. Understandable in many ways, but... Here is another one who expects a cakewalk through the Hindu Kush, and who is going to be cruelly disappointed. The dancing arab kids may not have legs to dance on in a near future, but a similar fate awaits many a Texas redneck volunteer who encounters the reality of combat, away from Duke-Nukem and his playstation.