Number 2, the book was written by a Marine, and the screenplay was written by another Marine. Strangely, not two people who have never been in the military.

If you read the book, maybe you might have a beef or two against the author, but most of those shortcomings aren’t in the movie. You guys are just plain old missing out. The movie is extremely funny and I’ll be recommending it to everyone.

When I left the theater, all I could think about was how much I missed the comraderie of the Marines. Most of Jarhead is exactly how life in the Marines was and those are the things so much of us miss.

America is individualism, profit, getting yours and hording it all to yourself, and as far as American religion is concerned, hording it from your family as well, but giving plenty to the church and Israel, and I don’t see how going overseas to fight one of Israel’s enemies protects yours at home, that is why no politician is sending his child over there. The politician understands America, there is no obligation in a land of indivdualism and “getting yours” to fight collectively for anything.

This nation is long post-great, I don’t think the white guys in WWII faught and died so that Mexicans and Third World immigrants would take over and our own politicians would bow to their every need to quickly inflate their wallets. It is individualism, worry about getting and securing yours, not fighting and dying for someone elses financial security.