Whatever Happened to Gary Cooper?

[Swede]

And far more important than how we got here, how can we end our enduring fascination with a puffed up, comic-book-style militarism that seems to have stepped directly out of screen fantasy and into our all-too-real lives?

A Seven-Step Recovery Program

As a society, we've become so addicted to militarism that we don't even notice the way it surrounds us or the spasms of societal 'roid rage that go with it. The fact is, we need a detox program. At the risk of incurring some of that 'roid rage myself, let me suggest a seven-step program that could help return us to the saner days of Gary Cooper:

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=34103

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. K & R

Written by a military man who knows whereof he speaks.

[villager]

2. from the header, I was thinking perhaps it was about Americans being essentially cowards

like in "High Noon..."