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Originally Posted by JohnM
Starship Troopers
Citizens!
Robert Heinlein was truly gifted, but it doesn’t take a genius to see that Starship Troopers, first published in 1959, is a handbook for the present.
We see it in the constant stream of patriotic, flame-fanning war news from all of the competing U.S. networks, the visions of "success" and "achievement" and "progress." We see simple heroes made of our soldiers, cameras cradling their young faces, and rolling their comments of "I’m proud of what we are doing here" and "It’s the right thing for America."
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Karen Kwiatkowski is a recently retired USAF lieutenant colonel, who spent her final four and a half years in uniform working at the Pentagon. She now lives with her freedom-loving family in the Shenandoah Valley.
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Interesting? Perhaps, but she obviously hasn't read it much better than the director of the farcical movie, who admitted he never finished the book. Too many discrepancies to spend time delineating, but anyone who has actually
read the book in more than a cursory fashion will note the obvious flaws in her "analysis". If she was as careless in performing her duties at the Pentagon, I feel sorry for her subordinates.