Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the Theatricals wanted to prove that today's liberated man can wear high heels on stage and win the Vietnam war on film. Perhaps a large caliber handgun was applied to certain key foreheads. Perhaps the Pudding actually wanted to get Rodney Dangerfield but the invitation was delivered to the wrong address. Perhaps huge sums of money changed hands via numbered bank accounts in Bermuda. Perhaps the insanity defense is applicable. Who knows...
After all, most of the major architects of the Vietnam War were Harvard men (McGeorge Bundy, Robert McNamara, et. al), while the driving forces behind Reagan's Rambo-style foreign policy carry the Crimson banner with pride, among them Cap Weinberger and Richard Pipes...
There are other obvious similarities between Stallone and the Harvard Establishment. It will be recalled how the Harvard Establishment gladly sent off Blacks, Hispanics, and working class white kids to die in Vietnam, while their pampered children enjoyed the luxury of a "safe" upper class education back at home. Meanwhile, where was Rambo while America was losing the war in Vietnam? Stallone, according to Jack Newfield, "ducked the draft during the Vietnam War (although he looks physically fit to me)." It seems Stallone went to an elite private school in Switzerland, then from 1967 to 1969 studied acting...
Rambo's hypocrisy has brought Stallone his share of enemies. Hill Street Blues star Charles Haid, a Navy veteran during the Vietnam War, observed that: "The whole idea of someone like Stallone representing the Vietnam veteran is absolute rubbish." Denouncing Stallone's film as a cartoon, Haid fumed "I'd love to get Stallone in a public forum where he and I could face...
...Richard Perle, George Will, Paul Trible, Pat Buchanan, New Gingrich, Paul Weyrich, among others managed to get out of military service during the war. This Rambo coalition, known as the "war wimps," have become the dominant voice of American foreign policy in the 1980s. Having lost the war in Vietnam, they are now winning it on the movie screens, much to the bemusement of the popcorn chewing hoi polloi. Jack Newfield, who originally exposed Stallone and the Reaganistas as "war wimps" in The Village Voice, pondered, "Why [aren't] these bullies by proxy at least inhibited by a guilty conscience...