You Can't Handle the Truth! - A Few Good Men (7/8) Movie CLIP (1992) HD

It's because Americans and many Europeans under the shield of the U.S. military and have never in their lives felt a moment of fear about external threats.[1] They never have to meaningfully confront the central fact of their existence: that they enjoy a vastly disproportionate share of the world's bounty in a way that would be impossible without overwhelming military power. I suspect people living in say Ukraine don't talk like this. [1] As I get older, I'm more sympathetic to Colonel Jessup: [this video] .

Thanks! For those who didn't get the joke, I want to point you to this moment of decision in A Few Good Men. (spoiler alert) - [this video]

To be clear this is a reference to this scene: [this video] edit: it's a scene where this exact conversation is playing out.

I can only imagine the people running these organizations share the perspective of Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men [this video] They believe they are the law, not that they're subservient to it.