Heather Cook
2007-09-30 10:02:38
I watched Susan Sarandon on The View with her puppet, Jake McLaughlin, as he explained how he was their “expert” on war. How the whole production would stop so he could show them what war was really like.
They can bill him as a “veteran” but that assumes that he has some age and experience behind him. What he has is four years in the army before he left to be an actor. Now he can bill himself as an expert on being a solidier… because he did it, but it’s no more than a bullet point on his resume. Platform building.
Real soldiers are the ones STILL THERE. Want a perspective on being a soldier… ask one actually doing it. Not one who, at age 24, already had two kids and a went to be a soldier to pay the bills for a while.
