TURNER Do we have plans to invade the Middle East ?
HIGGINS Are you crazy ?
TURNER Am I ?
HIGGINS Look, Turner…
TURNER Do we have plans ?

HIGGINS No. Absolutely not.(then)We have games. That’s all. We play games.

“What if ?”,

“How many men ?”,

“What would it take ?”,

“Is there a cheaper way to destabilize a regime ?”

(quieter) That’s what we’re paid to do.

TURNER So…Atwood just took the games too seriously.

He was really going to do it…wasn’t he?...

HIGGINS The fact is, it wasn’t a bad plan.

It could’ve worked.
TURNER Boy, what is it with you people?

You think not getting caught in a lie

is the same thing as telling the truth?
HIGGINS It’s simple economics, Turner.

Today it’s oil. In 10 or 15 years it’ll be food, or plutonium.

Maybe sooner than that.

What do you think the people will want us to do then?

TURNER Ask them!
HIGGINS Not now. Then.
Ask them when they’re running out.

Ask them when there’s no heat and they’re cold.

Ask them when their engines stop.

Ask them when people who have never known hunger start going hungry.
Want to know something?

They won’t want us to ask them.

They’ll want us to get it for them.

TURNER Boy, have you found a home.(then)

There were seven people killed, Higgins.

HIGGINS The company didn’t order it. Atwood did.
TURNER Atwood did. And who the hell is Atwood!

He’s you. He’s all you guys.

Seven people killed, and you play games!
HIGGINS Right. And the other side does, too.

That’s why we can’t let you stay outside.

TURNER Well, go on home, Higgins.

Go on.

They’ve got it.

HIGGINS What?

TURNER You know where we are.

Just look around.

They’ve got it.

That’s where they ship from.

They’ve got all of it.

Higgins’ head darts up and he reads the legend above Turner’s head.

THE NEW YORK TIMES.

He is stunned.

HIGGINS What ?

What did you do?

TURNER I told them a story.

You play games,

I told them a story.

HIGGINS Oh, you — You poor, dumb son of a bitch.

You’ve done more damage than you know.
TURNERI hope so....

HIGGINS How do you know they’ll print it?

You can take a walk,

but how far if they don’t print it?

TURNER They’ll print it.
HIGGINS How do you know?

check out

and

this

Richard Elms, ex CIA, with Robert Redford

check out the casablanca poster

not a film though, an airline

I always liked to hear about the oldtimers. Never missed a chance to do so. Nigger Hoskins over in Bastrop County knowed everbody's phone number off by heart. You can't help but compare yourself gainst the oldtimers. Can't help but wonder how they would've operated these times. There was this boy I sent to the gas chamber at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell. Be there in about fifteen minutes. I don't know what to make of that. I surely don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job - not to be glorious. But I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. You can say it's my job to fight it, but I don't know what it is anymore. More than that, I don't want to know. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He would have to say, "O.K., I'll be part of this world."

a totally misleading poster, see @

watch the film

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cool post about walkabout