Enemy identification

Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 6 months ago to Movies
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In the movie Midway, Cliff Robertson's character says that the only problem that the character played by the son of Charlton Heston's character is "enemy identification".

It is time to view Obama and his ilk, and even Boehner and his cronies, as the enemy, rather than fellow citizens. As seen in the URL above, they view us as the enemy.

On a side note, not only does Midway the movie have as great a cast as any movie in history, the Battle of Midway is as great an example of the triumph of the mind and what made America great than any event in history. We would not have won that battle had we not cracked the Japanese codes.

You can pay for a copy of the movie Midway at
www.imdb.com/title/tt0074899/



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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Where AS is concerned, it's easy to distinguish fiction from reality. The fiction is more believable...
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I haven't seen Obama do live broadcast interviews with hosts likely to be confrontational. There was one webcast interview about a month ago where he was trying to push an agenda and was surprised that the host actually gave him a tough question. As usual, he was his petulant self.
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  • Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Haha, yeah, that's probably true. Though we could always give them a script beforehand, and then just go off script once the cameras were rolling. Sure, it's a little deceptive, but if that's what it takes to expose their lies and catch them in their contradictions and doublespeak, it may be justified.

    Of course this idea would only work on a live broadcast. A pre-recorded interview would obviously allow time to edit out any questions they found objectionable, or simply block the broadcast entirely.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    First of all, Obama would never let you or anyone from the Gulch interview him. He (and anyone used to politics or the media) insists on knowing what the questions are up front. If they object to certain questions, those questions are not included, or the interview more likely never happens.
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  • Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Interesting. If I had been the one interviewing him, the conversation probably would have gone something like this:

    Obama: "And I said, well, you can't punish your friends when – the folks who've been supporting it. Now, I did also say if you're going to punish somebody, punish your enemies, and I probably should have used the word, "opponents" instead of enemies."

    Me: "Alright, let's focus on a different word, then. Let's focus on the word 'punish.' What do you mean when you say you're going to punish your opponents? You're going to punish people who disagree with you? What are you trying to imply there?"

    Obama: "I uh... um... well..."
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  • Posted by Wanderer 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    J;

    I notice these point thingies come and go - must mean I'm making enemies. What did Highram do to be banished?
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The difficulty in distinguishing fiction from reality is why I just got my Atlas Shrugged: Now Non-Fiction t-shirt. I'll enjoy wearing that to the premiere when AS3 comes to my local theater like the first two did. I may have to wear my Quentin Daniels name tag, too.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It does sound like Obama, but I did remember that line from the book. I had forgotten, however, that Philip Reardon was the one who spoke it.
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  • Posted by Wanderer 11 years, 6 months ago
    Who does this sound like? (Don't cheat and look at the answer):

    "He didn't dig that ore single handed, did he? He had to employ hundreds of workers. They did it."

    Wrong - you racist sons of bitches! The shame of America's original sin showing through again! It was NOT Barack Obama, it was Philip Reardon.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thank you! My copy (given to me by a good friend in Jr high, sometime in the mid-70s) is in a box somewhere.

    "Coming home some nights from the exercise of our hunts
    together, I would think of my wife and little girl far away in
    Georgia, and get very homesick. Once I looked at the General
    and told him how I wished that I could press a button and kill
    all the Japanese, to end the war, so that we could all go home.
    He thought for a second or two and then looked back, smiling.

    "Aw now, Scotty," he said, "we don't want to do that. We've
    got to learn to hate this enemy. Think of how much fun it is to
    kill them slow." Yes, sir, the General's business was killing Japs. "

    How we've changed :(

    "Tex's blond hair was blowing in the wind, his eyes were look-
    ing with venomous hate at the Jap, his jaw was set. I had opened
    my mouth to congratulate him, for he had shot down two enemy
    ships that day, when I had a closer look at his eyes. . . . Tex
    strode over close to the fire and looked at the mutilated Jap where
    he had been thrown from the cockpit. Then, without a change of
    expression, he kicked the largest piece of Jap, the head and one
    shoulder, into the fire. I heard his slow drawl: "All right, you
    sonofabitch if that's the way you want to fight it's all right with
    me." "

    This was after Tex Hill had literally flown nose-to-nose with a Japanese fighter at ground level, and Tex blew it out of the sky just before he flew through its debris.

    If he did that today, he'd be up on charges and confined for a psych evaluation.

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  • Posted by Wanderer 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Invisible One;

    My Muslim employees told me we would lose this fight because unlike them, Americans are unwilling to die for our beliefs. They are, of course, essentially wrong. It's true, Americans lose the first few battles of every fight, not because we won't die for our beliefs, but because we won't kill for our beliefs. We aren't all naïve psychopaths, waiting to terrorize, maim torture and kill others. We're not willing to kill until we see our own killed, after which we learn to get past our predilection to save lives rather than take them.
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  • Posted by Wanderer 11 years, 6 months ago
    J;

    Early in his first term I became convinced Barack Obama's goal is the destruction of the US; not physical destruction, but financial and social destruction that will bring about a collapse in our military and retreat from the world stage. At every turn along the way, where he's had to choose between what's good for the United States and what's bad for the United States he's chosen the thing that will cost us the most and cause us the most pain and take us farther down the road of societal decay. The only difference between him and the Manchurian candidate is the Manchurian candidate once served his country. Barack Obama never has.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    As far as I'm concerned his "explanation" simply confirmed my impressions about the original statement. He substituted the word "enemies" with "opponents".
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 6 months ago
    Obama put his "punishing our enemies" quote in context in

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-explai...

    This was during the run-up to the 2010 midterm "Tea Party election". He was speaking on Univision trying to energize Hispanics to come out and vote for Democrat candidates.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 6 months ago
    I'm always reminded of a chapter in Robert Lee Scott's "God is My Co-Pilot". Entitled, "We've got to learn to hate".
    The "Flying Tigers" did the impossible, and that made them mighty (points to whoever can identify that quote :). They felt no guilt, no remorse, they knew they were fighting evil, and they didn't care. They were fighting for The American Girl, and a world in which she was safe and happy. If a few "Japs" had to die horribly to achieve that... oh, well, they started it.

    After a particularly nasty dogfight, "Tex" Hill walked up to the largest remaining body part of his opponent, the upper torso and shoulder IIRC, gave it a little kick and said, "If that's the way you want it, Mister".

    These people want to destroy the America those men fought to preserve every bit as much as any "Jap" or "Kraut" or even "Russkie".
    Why shouldn't we hate them, and recognize them as the enemy?
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