From this moment on, "Buffalo Soldiers" feels fake — true to its vision of scam and subterfuge, which may be what counts, but insolently bored by every aspect of military existence except for boredom itself.
They are bringing to the esoteric world of academia the ballast of the most real of real-world experiences, along with all the marks of the military existence, from crew cuts to frayed nerves to a platoon approach to social life.
While the technology is currently only used by the US military, its existence is clearly noted on the manufacturer's website.
The memorial, the first public service at the site for as long as anyone can remember, was organized by the Association of Jewish Soldiers, a small but growing group in the German military whose existence testifies to the feeling by at least some Jews that it is possible for them to be patriots again in the nation that once tried to wipe them out.
But the critical reason for the military's existence is to protect and serve.
Yet it was Nixon who, as President, then confounded his own right-wing backers by negotiating peaceful economic and military co-existence with the Communist dictator, Mao Zedong -- despite having denounced the "loss of China" to Communism for decades.
Paterson was apparently once in the military, a former existence which is never explicitly discussed, but which has evidently prepared him for a certain act of heroism at a late stage in the movie.
That the president of any country should hope for the destruction of Israel is a timely reminder that, despite its military might, the existence of one place on earth that Jews can call their own is not to be taken for granted.
The ideology of both Fatah, Hamas and by extension the PLO has always been perfectly aligned, as outlined in the Fatah constitution article 12, that their goal is to achieve 'complete liberation of Palestine, and eradication of Zionist economic, political, military and cultural existence.' Over the years they have been at odds over politics and modus operandi, but little more.
Ever since the US military funded Silicon Valley into existence after the second world war, the tech industry has fed on a steady stream of public goods.
It was either pick the fill-in-the-blank life or stick with the military's multiple-choice existence.
