Tom Neven, who served seven years as a Marine Corps infantryman, wrote a piece in the Rocky Mountain News about the movie “Jarhead”, based on a book by the same name.
His piece is headlined “‘Jarhead’ a viciously dishonest lie”, and it doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.
By now you’ve probably read the varying reviews of Jarhead, the new movie that purports to be about the Marine Corps and the first Persian Gulf War. Based on the memoir of the same name by Anthony Swofford, both the movie and book bear only a superficial resemblance to anything real.
[…] Jarhead the book is a silly political manifesto, too, asserting that the Gulf War was fought to protect “the profits of companies, many of which have direct ties to the White House.”
[…] Swofford got away with a lot with his 2003 book. Now that the story is being more widely told, I hope he’s held to account for his self-indulgent, nihilistic fairy tale. In the end, the truth will find you out.
Tom Neven is also the author of the book Do Fish Know They’re Wet?.
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