Generation Kill: Wired for War
David Simon and Ed Burns shift their focus from Baltimore to Iraq in their new HBO miniseries
Sometimes the Marines’ complaints are played for laughs — as in the bizarrely petty platoonwide order that grooming standards will be strictly enforced for the invasion — but others carry the hint of darker, more scandalously reported problems to come, such as the nagging lack of batteries, or a dearth of lubricant for the Humvee gunners, or even sensible directives. As theory-spouting Corporal Person sarcastically explains to the Evan Wright character (Lee Tergesen), the army gets what they want, but if the country wants its Marines to remain angry killing machines, they must consistently be denied what they need.
“Marines, we make do,” he says.
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Generation Kill is in many ways the most straight-ahead, apolitical portrait yet of who’s fighting our wars for us, but it’s hard not to hear that line and wonder where six years of “making do” has gotten us.
GENERATION KILL | HBO | Sundays, 9 p.m.
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