Pajamas Media » On the Front Lines in Afghanistan, Part Two
Americans say that the Lithuanians are sort of a weaponized version of Borat, who think nothing of sauntering around a base in nothing but flip-flops and underwear. “They look like mountain men. They never shave, sometimes don’t bathe, and often roll out the gate wearing nothing but body armor and weapons. Not even a t-shirt,” an American soldier told me. The Lithuanians may be a little bit nuts, but the Americans love to have them around because Lithuanians love to fight, and when you need backup, you can count on them. That contrasts starkly with many of the NATO “partners.”
I’d bet there is a great movie in here someplace.
Anent those useless NATO “partners:” These are the feebs and dweebs that Barack Obama says we need “on our side.” Whom we need to learn to “work with” better.
For what? (via Instapundit).
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Sure there is. But it won’t come out of Hollywood.
We were discussing this very issue around the house this morning. Some cable channel is showing “1,2,3″, the Cold War comedy starring James Cagney. If you haven’t seen it, it’s screamingly funny, and unabashedly pro-American and anti-Communist.
We lamented the fact that it’s simply impossible within the Hollywood system to get such a movie made today. They would be looking for a way to make someone, anyone except the Americans the good guys.
In fact, it’s hard to get any good comedy made today. That last really great comedy I’ve seen out of Hollywood was Groundhog Day. Hollywood seems to have lost their sense of humor along with the morals they jettisoned when they went whole hog for moral equivalence.
I hope Hollywood is only a few miles behind the newspapers and broadcast TV stations on the road to irrelevance.
Why can’t movies by made someplace other than Hollywood? I don’t know jack about the movie business, can someone who does explain this to me? What do they have that no one else can get?
Money, experience, distribution, infrastructure, personnel, and, sad to say, talent - and star power.
I always find it interesting that by and large the former Eastern Bloc countries (Poland, Lithuania, Georgia) are far more enthusiastic and reliable allies in the anti-jihad than the older NATO members. I gues living under the rule of Communist thugs for a while puts you back in touch with reality. Sadly, we’re going to get the same education.