low culture: You know that scene in <i>Fahrenheit 9/11</i> where the military uses the promise of a music career to lure new recruits?

September 8, 2004

You know that scene in Fahrenheit 9/11 where the military uses the promise of a music career to lure new recruits?

From "U.S. Planes Hit Rebel Stronghold in Falluja; 6 Reported Killed", the New York Times, September 8, 2004 (emphasis mine):

"There are no negotiations," said Col. Robert B. Abrams, the commander of the First Brigade of the First Cavalry Division. "Sadr needs to disband and disarm, and then we can talk."
"If they don't disarm," Colonel Abrams said of the Mahdi Army, "we will be back at this every month, forever."

UNRELATED: Colonel Abrams, the MCA recording artist who released a small handful of top-ten singles in the mid-1980s, including "Trapped", whose chorus is reproduced below:

Can't you see I'm so confused? / I can't get out / You see I'm trapped
Like a fool I'm in a cage. / I can't get out / You see I'm trapped

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