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Did you even watch the movie?if you pay attention to the movie you wouldn't ask this question

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.-T.Jefferson

You are right in that there is no topic that has 100% agreement by everyone. There is always someone who disagrees. Now the fact that you need to get over the fact that you have made a fool of yourself and firmly put the tin hat of lunacy on, proves that you need to go back under the rock you pulled yourself out from. Also your point doesn't address whether or not MacGregor's son would have voluntarily gone into battle. Since I don't believe him to be an anti American, coward, intellectually dishonest person. I believe he would go. I am Certain you would do nothing to protect your own country, so I would never ask in the first place.
Dr. Kila Marr was right. Kill the Crystalline Entity.

StoneGriffin
At the time EVERYONE was convinced that this was true (there are too many Monday morning quarterbacks who bitch and moan after the fact)
Get over yourself. You may have fallen for the Bush Administration bag of lies. Millions of war protesters all over the planet and their supporters did not. Just because the mainstream media and the history revisionists like to pretend that everyone went along with the Iraq war, doesn't make it true.
There is no topic you can think of that has 100% support of all Americans. I'd be surprised if you found one in the upper ninety percent.
No two persons ever watch the same movie.

In the middle east war, I don't think MacGregor's son would have gone into battle in the first place.
Uh, yes he WOULD have. He was an elite soldier, a ranger. Of course he would have gone. I suppose you FORGOT Sept 11th, 2001 and think that we just went all over the world for no reason whatsoever. All of the military decisions, (right or wrong can be argued by historians) were based on either tracking down and destroying Al Qaeda or stopping terrorists from getting WMDs. At the time EVERYONE was convinced that this was true (there are too many Monday morning quarterbacks who bitch and moan after the fact). MacGregor's son WOULD have gone after Al Qaeda, he would have volunteered to kill those monstrous villains.
Dr. Kila Marr was right. Kill the Crystalline Entity.

Unless he ENLISTED. He didn't seem to be the type to wait around to be drafted.

Because he could. MacGregor was a rich oil business man, so he had the resource to do something other than beg the US government to do something. He could pay for the ex-soldiers to do some training, give them equipment and help smooth the political wheels to get it done.
Unfortunately, most affected American families had to wait around for the government to do something.
In the middle east war, I don't think MacGregor's son would have gone into battle in the first place.
No two persons ever watch the same movie.

Yes, Robert Stack's character was the one who largely funded the operation. At the end of the movie you could see Hackman look upon Stack with joy yet contempt that it was too late to save his own son. I'm a professor of film and media, and getting into the psychology of this, Hackman would probably never have forgiven himself even though the obstacles were not his fault. I've delved off into another subject here though.

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