RIGHT ON, RAMBO
Charles Champlin sees “Rambo” as a right-wing revisionist film and fears that the public is, indeed, taking the message of the film seriously (“ ‘Rambo’s’ Right-Wing Revisions,” July 14).
When Stallone queries, “Do we get to win this time?” and “All we want our country to do is love us as we love it,” Champlin may see it as hard-line right-wing, doctrinaire stuff. But I believe Stallone has correctly read and touched the nerve endings of the public and the response simply validates the conservative swing in thinking in the country. I surely do not read this as “. . . dire calamity.”
Vietnam, like Korea, was conducted policy-wise on a limited basis, in effect, a no-win war. To send men to fight with that premise is, in my mind, the height of immorality. Stallone merely redefines this truism and, for sure, the public is reacting positively.
A message, yes, but on the money.
FRANK R. WYNNE
Los Alamitos
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