If they won’t be peaceful, kill em. That’s the alternative.

Exibit A at the museum of the pre-PC era.

Buck Turgidson on May 30, 2007 at 9:09 AM

“If they won’t be peaceful, kill ‘em.”

Wow…can you imagine a Hollywood leading man saying that today?

flipflop on May 30, 2007 at 9:10 AM

Spoken like someone who had actually been in a fight in his life.

Multiple alternatives are for the delusional.

There are always two.

Survival and victory for your world view …or not.

The enemy already knows this.

(They’ll cut your soldiers’ heads off to emphasize their clarity and determination… and Geneva Conventions be damned.)

It may take us a lot more suffering to get down to our survival instincts again.

“War Is Not The Answer” was preached to George Washington by Tory cowards.

We’re back to being infested with them again.

Unable to understand the stakes:

Civilization and Freedom or Submission and Slavery.

profitsbeard on May 30, 2007 at 9:35 AM

I’ve always loved Robert Mitchum.
*swoon*

annoyinglittletwerp on May 30, 2007 at 9:57 AM

Well, no, not quite, but if a Chavez-hugging hippie like Cindy Sheehan gets to wear that label, why not a sleepy-eyed, dope-smoking, now-deceased leading man?

I trust the latter more.

amerpundit on May 30, 2007 at 9:59 AM

Truth.

Heh.

Jaibones on May 30, 2007 at 10:06 AM

They don’t make them like him anymore.

What a hunky man!

moonsbreath on May 30, 2007 at 10:23 AM

Hmmmm…. Moral Clarity…

There becomes a point where in order for civilization to survive, it must take off the gloves and force the Barbarians to fear it… for Barbarians ONLY understand fear.

Romeo13 on May 30, 2007 at 10:48 AM

Tangential thought … but Lee Marvin was a very similar thinking man to Bob Mitchum. Lee Marvin served in the Marines in WW2 and was on several island campaigns, including Iwo Jima, where he was wounded.

Probably nobody remembers the particular show, but one of Marvin’s appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was memorable. Carson asked Marvin who was the bravest man he ever knew. Marvin described a Marine sergeant’s incredible actions on Iwo, for which the Sergeant received the Navy Cross. That Sergeant was Bob Keeshan, known to most of us as Captain Kangaroo.

DavePa on May 30, 2007 at 11:34 AM

I take back what I said about Mr. Green Jeans.

Buck Turgidson on May 30, 2007 at 11:51 AM

I love that pothead!

omnipotent on May 30, 2007 at 12:14 PM

I was about 4 or 5 when I went to the Drive In with my parents and saw Thunder Road - I was suppose to be sleeping in the back seat - saw quite a bit of the movie and fell in love with Mitchum - I still know all the words to the song (Thunder Road).

msflea on May 30, 2007 at 12:28 PM

“If they won’t be peaceful, kill ‘em.”

Wow…can you imagine a Hollywood leading man saying that today?

flipflop on May 30, 2007 at 9:10 AM

Hey flip, how about this….

Now a star, Mitchum was quickly branded a rebel for his refusal to take himself or his profession seriously. “This whole place,” he said of Hollywood, “has no relation to real people. Oh, there are real people here, but they’re in the oil refineries and the factories, not in movieland. Not here. This is Atlantis.”

soulsirkus on May 30, 2007 at 2:30 PM

You don’t have to occupy a country to win a war on culture, civilizations, religion or what every you want to call it, “war on terror”. Did we win the cold war? Did we invade the USSR?

I think that this “example” is funny since we left Vietnam, 30 years later it’s a capitalist society. Yea yea yea pol-pot killed a bunch of people post US pull out. You would think we would have learned the side affect of invading countries. There is no pol-pot only sunni, shiite and al-qaeda. There is control we can exert but it will take intelligence and diplomacy and the current group in charge have neither ability.

Vietnam was a disaster and accomplished nothing, just like Korea, started on the 30th parallel and ended there. Go watch some episodes of M.A.S.H. War sucks, and Bush decided to go to war than made the evidence to fit. A tragedy of immense and historical proportions. When will we learn. The road to hell is paved with good intent.

YES war is needed some times, like WWII. However we need robust debate and open dialogue with the nation, the people engaged, before going to war and THAN only 100%, not this won’t last 6 months, oil revenues will pay for it, greeted like liberators, mission accomplished, insurgence in the last throes and we need 400,000 troops so send 150,000.

We where still in post 9/11 shock and Bush babies shoved this cluster F down out throats. My bad, our bad.

May we never forget Bush a Republican President and a Republican Congress and Senate Gave us this gift that will cost us trillions over the next 80 years, even if we stopped the bleed today. Remember the Republicans did it, 100% and own it. Congrats. Dems have a BJ and GOP has Iraq. The BJ is looking pretty good right now.

gmcjetpilot on May 30, 2007 at 3:36 PM

Romeo13 on May 30, 2007 at 3:59 PM

You know…. the fight in Iraq in which we’ve lost less military people a year than we used to loose to military ACCIDENTS back in the 70s…

Naval aviation ALONE lost more people per year in the 70’s than we’ve lost to combat actions per year since 2003. It was after 1977 that the concepts now embedded in ORM began to take shape, as upper brass was forced to face how poorly safety was being managed.

Did we win the cold war? Did we invade the USSR?

The USSR didn’t knock down our tallest skyscrapers either. They didn’t try, because we had a President who was willing to “push the button”, as Bob Mitchum put it. Reagan stepped up to the line and refused to blink, which forced Russia to spend its anti-capitalist capital on an ever-increasing war machine while slow-bleeding its people of their very existence.

Freelancer on May 30, 2007 at 4:48 PM

“If they won’t learn, if they won’t be peaceful, KILL THEM ALL”

I love it. Robert Mitchum was WAY ahead of his time.

flagwaver on May 30, 2007 at 7:05 PM

What’s the alternative? Why do libs always need an alternative?

Mojave Mark on May 31, 2007 at 12:54 AM