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#Iceman killer you mad me mad tv#

Much as I love the Rick Rubin-produced Johnny Cash "America" albums, they're dangerously close to becoming a cliche for TV show montages.

The Marines' arrival in the cigarette factory, with the silver paper raining down on them like a ticker-tape parade, was a perfect homage to/parody of President Bush's "Mission Accomplished." The war is allegedly over, but the battles are going to keep going for years and years.

Some specific moments I liked in the finale: You can't just leave the unexploded bomb in the garden, because sooner or later somebody's going to blow the thing up, right? As an attempt to promote democracy and discourage terrorism, it's been a dismal failure, for reasons illustrated by First Recons various misadventures in this hour. As an invasion, this was an enormous success we took down an entire country in three weeks time. The miniseries has been enormously entertaining (even if, as I've said, the "Groundhog Day" nature of the Marines' lives made it tough to blog at times), but in deconstructing how Operation: Iraqi Freedom went wrong, they were all just a lead up to the events depicted here. In that way, "Bomb in the Garden" is more important than all six previous "Generation Kill" chapters put together. And we are, after all, five years removed from the events depicted here, and our military is still over there trying to clean up the mess we made by breaking the country without having a sound plan to immediately begin fixing it. There's no way to justify punishing Kocher and Redman for the bayonet incident and promptly reinstate the actual bayonet-wielder, Captain America, for instance. forces at night might not have made things worse, along with getting our guys killed?īut allowing for the possibility of an alternate perspective only goes so far.

The explanation behind the lack of night patrols wasn't a terrible one in that environment, who's to say the presence of the U.S.

Fick's - which is to say that he has to rely on the reports of men below him, and sometimes below those officers - and if he deals harshly with one, isn't he obligated to deal harshly with the other? Yes, we know Fick is a great leader and Cap is a nutcase, but we're seeing them from a different point of view, and one that's then filtered through Evan Wright and again through Simon, Ed Burns and company.īy the same token, the wanderings of First Recon during their days in Baghdad seem aimless and counter-productive to Fick and Colbert, but there could have been very rational motives behind each of them from the way command saw things. Ferrando suspects that Captain America is probably unfit for combat, but he has the same perspective on Cap's actions that he does on Lt. (The men, of course, hated Sixta for ragging on them about their moo-stashes, but it was usually in that Charlie Finley Oakland A's way, where their mutual hatred of an authority figure brought them all together.) More importantly, we get the reporter (who is never, as far as I can tell, referred to by name at any point in the miniseries) doing his exit interview with Godfather. Major Sixta and Gunny Wynn when Sixta offers to bring up the grooming standard as a way to combat drooping morale.

"Bomb in the Garden" provides some hints of what that book might have been like. While talking about the thematic similarities between "Generation Kill" and "The Wire" - specifically, how both shows give their loyalties to the footsoldiers on the ground, and eye their bosses with extreme suspicion - he said, "To be fair, it would have been a different book if (Wright) had hung with Ferrando." When I interviewed the "Generation Kill" producers shortly before it premiered, David Simon said something interesting that didn't make it into the final story. Spoilers for the "Generation Kill" finale coming up just as soon as I score some valium.