Highly Motivated Marine in Action

by Emilio Lizardo | August 20, 2008 at 03:30 am

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OPINION:

Now Public Contributor E. Lizardo
August 20, 2008 7:29 AM EDT

Decide for yourselves how much sense it makes to create an army of highly trained, highly motivated killers.

A US Marine at a roadway checkpoint
... bored to tears, talking to a Baghdad-bound Iraqi taxi driver. You have to understand Marine humor in combat, a little on the sick side, but very funny. This lad's sarcasm and cynicism is profound and hilarious. This might be why the Commandant of the Marine Corps tried to have the Marines pulled from Iraq and sent to Afghanistan, because the lance corporals were complaining that they had no one to shoot at. Of course, Secretary Gates turned him down, so now the Marines are passing the word via cab drivers for the insurgents to come out and play.

It's all well and good as long as they are fighting the enemy. But what happens after these guys come home, and don't have enough to do? When they get a tad bored and decide to take out a date for a movie and a few drinks ?

I would not want to be the one caught looking the wrong way at this guy's date ...