I'm amazed at the absurdity of the people who agree with Sinise's character. Let me lay this out so I get it right.
1st: We need defense system to save lives and we don't have one.
2nd: Sinise believes the DoD doesn't want to make it because it's too expensive
3rd: We develop a system that doesn't work
4th: B/c of 1st we should allow to make a system that does not work.
5th: We fake results to give credence to results under the idea that because the principal reason for making is good at some point science will make it right via...magic?(I know he says time, but anyone who believes that logic is fairly simplistic, the person with the ideological belief in the need for the tool will continue it forever. Imagine if the government had that much faith in fusion power.)
6th: We kill people who try and tell the truth that we fake results for a machine that doesn't work.
Am I right? Did I get that straight. You all followed those 6th steps and said yes, yes that is correct?
This is how government money is wasted. We invest money in systems that don't work and when they don't work we continue to put money into them under the belief that close is better than nothing. The two failed ideas being that close, when it comes to something like laser missles is ever reasonable (Well We wanted to blow up that warship, but we hit the orphanage, but we were close). And that stopping of a failed project will lead to no ideas. To go back to the drawing board is not a sign of failure, but a sign of wisdom. [Funny thing, this sounds like the just launched F-35 which has been in development for 15 years, finally launched years behind schedule as a worse version of the planes they are suppose to be replacing, mainly continued through by politicians looking to pump money into the Military Industrial Complex and a false concept of patriotism]
More important you are able to trust the word of a man in a uniform who is in alliance with the company that gains economic advantage by the continuation of the project. There is little reason to believe Sinise when he is working for a man whose job is to make money off the government. That's called a War Profiteer, and they are a sleazy lot. They are the ones who make money as people die, more importantly they make money because people die. Don't let the uniform fool you, he is speaking as a war profiteer and not as a soldier, no matter how many touching stories he tells you (the story may also be an outlier, there is little reason to ever trust personal stories, but I'm very concerned that will upset too many of you as you shoot guns into the air).
So in the tl;dr section. You believe a war profiteer who makes money off the continuation of a machine in which there is little to no reason to think it will ever work at the expense of the public and never save any soldier's life.
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MarkAntney
8 years ago
Dunne/Sinse isn't any better than the antagonists in that 1983 or 84 Eddie Murphy and Dudley Moore (Bomb of a) Movie, "Best Defense".
The Contractor Company owner (John Heard) let you know in the movie it was about $$$, not saving lives.
Also, don't forget they executed a Public Servant.
Even if Dunne was correct, why would you want such a person responsible for other people's lives, $$s,...when he's shown a psychotic propensity to do any and everything HE BELIEVES in?
He pulled a Gun on his (So Called) Best Friend.
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liverpool26
7 years ago
If you want to support/have sympathy for the bad guy I'd say watch "the rock" another Nicholas Cage movie, the bad guy is a war hero who just wants compensation for the families of US soldier's who died for their country under his command. the government refused to pay out as they didn't want to admit the soldiers died on top secret missions. It hard to choose who to route for in that movie.
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