Redstate

Easily the better of the two films.

Which country is Hyman Roth?

JOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!!!!!

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it"-Winston Churchill

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I'm just too uninvolved to tell these players without a scorecard. I can't tell if Hulsman and Mitchell really believe that "The aging Vito Corleone, (is) emblematic of cold-war American power," or if they claim it's a metaphor that Coppola intended.

Either way, an analogical analysis that starts with that premise stays on shaky ground throughout, but I did try to get beyond it. If they were trying to say "Don't just be strong, be both strong and smart," it seems like a lot of verbiage to make an obvious point. OTOH, sometimes we all need to be reminded to recognize the obvious.

"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.“--Jeff Cooper. From Bill Coffey's collection of military quotations

Personally I think post 9/11 we switched to Scarface. Hey AQ let me introduce you to my little friend.

Tripe is tripe.

The formula writes itself.

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it"-Winston Churchill

"Yeah, Truman negotiated with his enemies; his emissaries were Fat Man and Little Boy."

I have to ask myself two questions concerning the above (brilliant) statement:

1.) How many of Obama's supporters know what Fat Man and Little Boy were?

2.) How many would have supported their use (or do today)?

Bonus fact: My late father was a U.S. Marine in World War Two. He spent almost two years in the Pacific, seeing combat with the Third Marine Division. I never heard him say a bad word about the atomic bombs. Go figure.

I don't know what Obama is referring to when he mentioned Truman. I can't recall Truman ever negotiating with any nation perceived as our enemy at that time.

True, Truman did sign the Potsdam Declaration jointly with Stalin. But that was in 1945, when the USSR was still our ally. Once the Cold War began, Truman took a very hard line toward the Soviets.