Word: gung-ho
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...structures - his battalion superiors, the Canadians who ran Task Force Kandahar and their NATO superiors at Regional Command-South, the NATO regional command for southern Afghanistan. He also needed the approval of the local, district and regional Afghan government authorities. That part wasn't too bad. Ellis was a gung-ho briefer. On Saturday, April 3, I watched him describe the school operation to a group of Canadian generals. "That was one of the most impressive op rants I've seen in a long time," Lieut. General Andrew Leslie, the Canadian chief of land staff, said when Ellis finished...
...adventure on its soldiers (In the Valley of Elah) and civilians (Lions for Lambs) or on U.S. foreign policy (Rendition), the response was tepid. No Middle East war film has earned even $50 million at the domestic box office, and the one that came closest, The Kingdom, was a gung-ho action picture. Nor has the public's apathy abated. The Best Picture, Director and Screenplay awards that The Hurt Locker won on Oscar night served only as a gigantic promotion for the movie's DVD. In theaters it was the lowest-grossing Best Picture winner of all time...
...greater Middle East today are born of a willful ignorance of history and culture. Tehran's current belligerence against the U.S. is a result, in part, of the Shah's supine relationship to Washington, which had reinstalled him in a 1953 coup. In the 1980s, America's gung-ho support for Afghan "freedom fighters," waging war against the communists, sowed the seeds of al-Qaeda and other extremist groups. (See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East...
John and Virgil’s encounters over the course of their investigation become increasingly bizarre. Among them are an absurdly erotic encounter with the wheelchair-bound Tasty Delight, and a naked confrontation with a gung-ho protector of a “nature compound.” As the seemingly random journey progresses, John begins to feel increasingly tough, adopting the attitude of the street-wise and fearless Virgil...
Perhaps we would all be a bit safer if gung-ho security types focused on effective methods of tracking terrorists instead of treating even 80-year-old little ladies like potential bombers. Taking a lesson from Israeli security profiling and tracking would be more effective than treating all of us innocent passengers like criminals. Brian Eyler, MOERFELDEN, GERMANY...