Interesting column about Democratic tough-talk at Accuracy In Media. My favorite bit:

Ironically, this message of increased U.S. military intervention in the rest of the world is being fed by Sylvester Stallone’s new “Rambo” movie about an old U.S. soldier leading a team of mercenaries against Burmese soldiers. As the Washington Post put it, Rambo becomes a “human rights activist” in the film, saving some Christian missionaries while killing scores of the oppressors of the Karen people. The R-rated film shows human rights violators being blown apart or torn to bits, mostly by Rambo, with the message being that somebody has to do something about the evil in the world. In real life, what the Democrats have in mind is increasing the power of the U.N. to deal with such problems. That means more money-and troops-from the U.S.

I’m not entirely sure about the idea of Rambo as human-rights activist, though I do agree with the fellow who wrote that the Nobel Peace Prize should go to the U.S. military, pretty much every year.