战争机器 War Machine (2017) Movie Script

- It's very generous.

- Hmm.

But... I've seen the country.

To get inside the mind of Glen McMahon, you really need first to get a handle on the madness of modern American war.

Lieutenant Colonel Frank Groom.

Welcome to Kandahar, sir.

Nice to meet you, Frank.

I'm here to get the lay of the land.

Counterinsurgency.

In the good old days, wars were fought against conventional armies from nation states.

Guys in uniforms, like Nazis and stuff.

When, however, you've just gone and invaded a place that you probably shouldn't have, you end up fighting against just regular people in regular-people clothes.

These guys are what are called insurgents.

Basically, they're just guys who picked up weapons 'cause... so would you, if someone invaded your country.

Funnily enough... insurgencies are next to impossible to defeat.

And so, if you wanna go on pretending you can win, you're really left with no option but to try to convince the country you've invaded that you're actually here to help.

He's saying the Americans are urinating in the streets, and, uh, they call us motherfuckers all day.

It's "motherf***er, motherf***er" all the time.

And it's considered in our culture a very bad thing to f*** your own mother.

In ours, too. Uh... in ours, too.

This is counterinsurgency.

It's a popularity contest.

Salaam alaikum.

You're trying to convince the people that they're better off with you than they are with the insurgents.

Basically, it works like this.