Katheryn Lopez has a great interview with Michael Yon.
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: What does it mean to be American “in the most romantic sense of the word” and why is it essential to counterinsurgency?
MICHAEL YON: Remember the scene in Lawrence of Arabia, where Peter O’Toole executes an Arab friend? “It was written,” Anthony Quinn tries to console him. Lawrence turns on him furiously and declares “Nothing is written.” It’s a very American moment in an English story. Americans live in a romance of possibility; we say “we can do it!” We reject fate.
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