My little brother and I enlisted in the US Army together in August of 1990. The recruiter who signed us up went over our contract with us very thoroughly.
As the United States had just declared war on Iraq, he also explained the portion of our enlistment contract that detailed the Army’s Stop-Loss policy.
While I knew plenty of Soldiers who didn’t like the policy, I didn’t know any who didn’t know about it and that it was a part of their enlistment contract.
Which is why I think that the new movie Stop Loss is just another piece of Liberal anti-war, anti-military rhetoric.
Libertas leads with this in her on-the-spot review:
What is possibly left to say about a poorly produced, poorly acted, poorly directed, and very poorly written anti-war film that defames our troops…?
I’ll tell you what’s left to say — box office bust.
Stop Loss cost about $30 million to make and another $10 million-or-so to market — and might make about $4 million when it’s all said and done.
But I doubt that’ll keep Hollywood from producing more of their anti-military, pro-defeat crap.
Libertas wraps up her review with this:
Stop-Loss is just an unforgivably cruel and stupid movie. Would an Army deserter wear Army fatigues? Do Hispanic soldiers really hope to get killed so their family will receive green cards? Is that even true? Would a soldier discharged in 2007 be so caught off-guard by a stop-loss order after years of publicity about it?
Undoubtedly, being stop-lossed has to suck something fierce, and I feel for the thousands pulled from their lives and loved ones for a contractual obligation they’re well aware of but probably never imagined would be brought to life. But they deserve better than this. Stop-Loss is Exhibit A — no, D –no, J in the case proving Hollywood can’t stand the troops. This insistent portrayal of these men and women as unstable and dangerous — dehumanized and psychotic — is outright stereotyping and the building of a stigma. It’s a monstrous act performed by these filmmakers and yet they remain undeterred even by box-office humiliation in their cruel objective to lose a war by tearing down our finest.
As long as they continue to make crap movies like this, and no one watches them, then the Hollyweird types that promote this view point are serving America well.
It is unfortunate that the movie makers have become so far left, and that they can’t understand (or wish too) why so many still believe in the basic concepts of our great nation, such as honor, courage, duty, and sacrifice, but rather view those values in our nation, and those who do believe in them as objects of scorn.
We need Joe McCarthy again, he was right about the commies in Hollywood.
Because of the stance Hollywood has taken in it’s opposition to the country I love, I am now in my nineteenth year of boycotting the box office.
Left by no2liberals on March 30th, 2008 at 4:57 am