(May 15, 2020 at 9:11 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(May 15, 2020 at 9:07 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's interesting to consider. I wouldn't want to be the guy that had the job of going full kurtz.
The military's job is to kill people and break things.
In the hope that they won't have to kill people and break things. Being on the pointy end of the stick means the military takes it on the chin for the folks back home. Kurtz was a comic book character.
Less so in the book than in the film. A lot of horrific shit happened in Congo Free State, and the Kurtz character was inspired by the real behaviour of real loonies.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
