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Originally Posted by Matt D.
What makes you think I didn't read the link? It's a movie. Even if loosely based on history it is still fiction. Go ahead and think a fictional movie fits in with your political agenda, but I'm not about to watch you compare the very country you're a citizen of to Russia.
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Watch me right now.
Yes, its a movie, and its a VERY loose history (basically where the history ends is the russians were there and we were helping the Gallant People, (now the Taliban) rise up against the occupation) of the russian occupation of Afghanistan. But what you seem to be missing is that this movie analysis is not of the past conflict but a current one that was before the movies time.
While yes, the Rambo Movies were mostly, kill kill kill the enemy, fight the war inside a man, yadda yadda yadda, they tend to try and fit in some kind of lesson or thought usually in the end of them.
In rambo 1 and 2, John Rambo came out of Vietnam, and was met with a war at home where the people were not supporting the troops, calling them baby killers, and basically looking at them like the troops were the enemys instead of looking at them like war heros.
In Rambo 3, He went in to help his commander that was captured by the Russian people, and ended up helping the afghan rebels push out the Russian Occupation. Much like in real events Charlie Wilson did with using the CIA to supply the Afghan people with weapons to push the russians out.
Now where you can compare the Russian Occupation to the current situation in Afghanistan, We are occupying Afghanistan to destroy the Taliban (who surprizingly were of the same people rambo was teaming with in rambo 3). This is a war we cannot win, just like we could not win in Iraq. History (Real history) has shown that the Afghan people are one of the most Resiliant people ever when it comes to other nations trying to occupy their land.
If you watch rambo 3 again, its extremely hard not to draw a comparison between the russians and our campaign, but its very difficult to actually say, we are the bad guy in this war.
The lack of learning from history, and seeing everyone in the gulf as our enemy, is sickening. The afghan people were once our ally, now our enemy. and your telling me there is no peaceful solution that doesnt involve bombing the shit out of them?