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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
Despite popular belief Marines can read a little  |
There was never a doubt5 in
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I also think the book borrowed heavily from Plato's Republic...
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Yep - or at least it was one of the underpinnings of the 1940s - 50s conservative philosophy - which I don't necessarily disagree with (well, I had issues with Edward Teller's approach to foreign policy
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it's much easier to get an 18-21 year old to read Sci-Fi than the dry ramblings of a dead guy
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So... are they reading other Heinlein works? Wondering how Stranger might go over in the Corps...
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The movie did suck, I was very disappointed.
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Me too - it was a lot worse than missing depth, though - they turned it into a parody. Sad when that's done to a favorite book...
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I think now that some of the more radical elements in the Sunni provinces have been removed the Sunnis will buy into the democratic process.
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Of course that leaves open the question of whether the Kurds want anything to do with
them. I'm just suggesting we let them choose - sort of the way Puerto Rico gets to choose every so often.