The Poles "get it".

AxeMental · Post by **AxeMental** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:07 am

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/02/0 ... cjrf8.html

These guys "get it".

stranger · Post by **stranger** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:49 am

Axe, you know this screams for a Polish joke but I shall refrain.

AxeMental · Post by **AxeMental** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:33 am

You better since I'm half Polish (and your a player in my game..muhahaha!).

PapersAndPaychecks · Post by **PapersAndPaychecks** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:10 am

Subtle.

If they'd gone for Nixon, it would have obviously been a joke. Reagan, you've got to think for a moment to appreciate the humour.

Wheggi · Post by **Wheggi** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:29 am

I don't think its a joke, P&P. Unlike the Onion, this site seems to be attempting legitimate news.

- Wheggi

AxeMental · Post by **AxeMental** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:09 am

Seriously, of all the Euro nations, the Poles, more then any, seem to appreciate just what Reagan and America did to free the world of the Soviet threat. It makes one wonder what we'd be facing today if Reagan had lost to Carter.

Stormcrow · Post by **Stormcrow** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:20 am

AxeMental wrote:Seriously, of all the Euro nations, the Poles, more then any, seem to appreciate just what Reagan and America did to free the world of the Soviet threat.

What threat?

PapersAndPaychecks · Post by **PapersAndPaychecks** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:40 am

Stormcrow wrote:What threat?

They were plotting to do that Russian dancing on the White House lawn, poison the President's vodka and flood the Pentagon with borscht. And then there was that ploy to win the world chess championship by making sure you couldn't enter unless you had a Russian-sounding name.

dcs · Post by **dcs** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:56 am

AxeMental wrote:It makes one wonder what we'd be facing today if Reagan had lost to Carter.

Peace in the Middle East?

AxeMental · Post by **AxeMental** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:49 pm

SC didn't you ever see red dawn?

Ermanaric · Post by **Ermanaric** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:31 pm

Stormcrow wrote:
AxeMental wrote:Seriously, of all the Euro nations, the Poles, more then any, seem to appreciate just what Reagan and America did to free the world of the Soviet threat.
What threat?

You're joking right?

T. Foster · Post by **T. Foster** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:17 pm

Ahh, Red Dawn. Saw this again recently on some cable channel. Blatantly ridiculous and propagandistic, and I find it almost impossible to believe it wasn't made with tongue at least partially in cheek (a la Verhoeven's Starship Troopers). But if you ignore the politics and actual real-world plausibility (pretend that instead of "USA" and "USSR" and "Cuba" it's all fictional countries, or something) it holds up surprisingly well as a movie -- well written, well directed, and very well acted by its 'brat pack' cast -- most of whom, I daresay, haven't been in anything as good since. John Milius, who also directed such movies as The Wind and the Lion (with Sean Connery and Candice Bergen), Conan the Barbarian (which surely everybody here has seen a million times), and Big Wednesday (which is actually one of my all-time favorite movies, even though (because?) I've never been on a surfboard in my life) and co-wrote the screenplays for Dirty Harry, Jaws, and Apocalypse Now, is IMO one of the great unsung "auteurs" of American cinema, and it's a real shame he doesn't make movies anymore.

TRP · Post by **TRP** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:03 pm

Okay. I don't get it. What's so funny about Poles desiring to honor the memory of Ronald Reagan? In how many protracted, marginally supported, wars did Reagan involve the U.S.?

Even if there were such a thing proposed for Nixon, I wouldn't think it would be horrendously odd. Did Nixon committ some grave, and illegal, mistakes? Obviously. In the words of Spock, however, "Only Nixon could go to China." Taken within the context of post-WWII history, that single event was nothing less than amazing.

TRP · Post by **TRP** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:10 pm

dcs wrote:
AxeMental wrote:It makes one wonder what we'd be facing today if Reagan had lost to Carter.
Peace in the Middle East?

Hardly. Peace in the Middle East is not within the control of the United States of America. Short of Global Thermal Nucular War, anyway. "Would you like to play a game?"

AxeMental · Post by **AxeMental** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:31 pm

"The wind and the Lion" is a great movie. I hadn't seen it until just a few years ago. Hard to believe Millius was involved in that (for some reason I thought he was younger). Yeah, Red Dawn was totally Tounge and Cheek in its premise IMO (like an alternate reality. But I think everyone new that going into it. I looked at it as an NRA commerical.

Oh, did you ever see the board game based on that movie (I suspect anyway) called AmeriKa. The premise was the United States against the world, no Nukes. Its a killer game, and starts out with invading forces covering much of the US. The Americans have to repel the attack. It's fun, though a bit depressing when the USA looses.