I had to watch this again because one viewing isn't enough to fully comprehend the depth of this show.. much of the dialogue and characters are often lost to simply I am so busy reacting and responding in my head to take it all in.

And yet I still feel almost as dead as the eyes on Twombly.... I just finished reading Phillip Sands book on Torture.. watching the Congessional hearings and Bill Moyers almost weekly devotions to the issue and I still cannot fully understand how or why anyone would continue to support this "war" in Iraq.

I can clearly see the soldiers good/bad/indifferent are in situations they can neither comprehend nor question. When the Godfather reminds them that they are "volunteers" I wondered how is that so? Perhaps in name only for where in anything when you volunteer you have no rights nor reason to quit if you find the work out of your grasp. Despite the clear intellectual gaps for some even the lowest of the low see the futility and hopelessness of the situation.. yet they comply and go forward as that is what soldiers.. no excuse me Marines do... the even class distinctions that they use to segregate themselves from other military branches is quite telling.. white men always find themselves in a pissing contest even when they are all pissing in the same shitbowl....

I feel no better about soldiers knowing that for most of them they see this as nothing but an excuse to shoot shit and the US Government condones this and is a pimp to their habit. Further embarassment, shame and anger I feel for this country who seems to put a bigger target for condemnation at home and abroad.