War movies anger leftists, especially emasculated men

The movie "12 Strong" opens this weekend and depicts the first military response to the Taliban in Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on American soil.

It is a story about a dozen Marines who befriend members of the Afghan Northern Alliance and go to fight on horseback against an enemy that greatly outnumbers them.

The movie is about heroes.

Leftists don't like heroes because they feel threatened by them. This is why many leftist "men" wore pussy hats at the Women's Day March to oppose President Trump and the nation. In fact, these leftists want Hollywood to stop making war films because they promote "backwards" ideas and "glorify outdated models of masculinity."

Easy for lefties to say that since we aren't at war now in our homeland. Not on the scale as Afghanistan is at war. If we were, this would be a non-issue and these same leftists would do whatever they could to have someone else defend the nation so that they could go on complaining.

Thank God, our "toxic masculinity" stopped ISIS overseas, with the leader scurrying to save his own dirty butt into the recesses of Pakistan and destroying the Al Qaeda network of scum-wafers, the group that killed 3,000 Americans on that day in 2001. None of the leftists complained about our response by George W. Bush after those building came down--I saw it happen--I'm from the New York City.

According to The Intercept, [an ironic word describing a military action, often involving air combat, used by a media outlet made of snowflakes] it's time to end the glorification of heroics demonstrated in war.

"Hollywood has shown itself capable of making excellent war movies (think "Three Kings," "Paths of Glory," and "The Best Years of Our Lives"), but most are problematic," writes Peter Maass (the 'Ma' is silent). "Some of the biggest war movies of the post-9/11 era don't just show violence in ways that are often gratuitous and occasionally racist [he had to get that word in there somehow]. They model a cliched form of masculinity that veers from simplistic to monstrous."

Maass's criteria for a great war movie are totally met in "12 Strong," but the movie undermines his leftist ideology.

"In the same way that Hemsworth's assault weapon goes rat-tat-tat and the bad guys fall like bulleted dominoes, the scene itself checks off one born-in-Hollywood cliché after another: of the rugged gunslinger, the warrior in camo, good versus evil, the modern vanquishing the profane, a man at his fullest," Maass whimpers.

If we could all just hug it out, there would be no war.

Maass has reported on war and should know better, but his politics outweighs reality.


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