What do you think this dinner is for, Tom Howard. uh General, this uh, this, this dinner...
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Gen. Glen McMahon:
What do you think this dinner is for, Tom Howard.
Tom Howard:
uh General, this uh, this, this dinner is uh, to honor you sir.
Gen. Glen McMahon:
[immediately]
Wrong. This dinner is for Afghanistan. We're here tonight because we're at war in Afghanistan. And you've got the goddamn gall, to kick the only Afghan in the room off my goddamn table?
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What do you think this dinner is for Tom Howard
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stammers General this dinner is to honor you sir
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Wrong This dinner is for Afghanistan
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We are here tonight because we're at war in Afghanistan
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And you got the goddamn gall to kick the only Afghan in the room
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off my goddamn table I'm sorry
Clip duration: 22 seconds
Views: 131
Timestamp in movie: 01h 01m 28s
Uploaded: 15 November, 2022
Genres: comedy, drama, war
Summary: An idiosyncratic general confronts opposition from enemies, allies, and bureaucrats while leading a massive rebuilding operation in Afghanistan.
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00:46 Glen I've spent the last week or so
00:33 Let's say the two insurgents you just killed uh
00:18 Let me tell you what I want you to do Tom Howard
00:28 Sir uh my team and I are about to embark on a uh
00:37 Sean In the good old days wars were fought
00:06 God damn it Pete Why are you fat
00:21 Here's the thing about press releases
00:26 Sean I used to think that men went gray because they had...
00:29 Sean Wars aren't fought by nations or by armies
00:31 This is a war
00:29 I don't know sir It seems to me that we all here with...
00:16 You gotta understand
00:08 Greg Listen we are the fucking US military
00:41 Your predecessor General Whelan I liked him
00:31 Sean The thing about counterinsurgency is that it...
00:11 General
00:23 Anyway in the absence of any real soul searching
00:12 In it he wrote Men are imperfect creatures
00:32 Ah General excuse me Ah
00:28 Sean You could argue that the main reason