Cast a Giant Shadow Page #3

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A staff officer acting like a kid|playing cowboys and Indians...

...is an example that might cost us|a few thousand lives.

What are you trying to prove, Marcus?

I wish to hell I knew, sir.

I wish to hell I knew, sir.

I wish to hell I knew.

I wish to hell I knew.

Mickey.

Mickey.

Why don't we get a divorce?

What?

I don't want a divorce,|but a girl has to have some pride.

What are you talking about?

We haven't really had a marriage.

It's been more like the|world's longest affair.

So why not be sensible?|Just cut the whole thing.

We can just go to bed together|every time you pass through New York.

That's a great proposition|from your own wife!

Emma.

I told you...

...we're starting the marriage right now.

I'm staying here.

No.

You're going.

I have to send you off|to your flea-bitten war.

It gets you more excited than I do,|doesn't it?

- That's a hell of a thing to say right now.|- It's true.

If I tried to keep you here,|our marriage wouldn't have a prayer...

...if it still has one.

I'm not going to lock you in a cage|and let the relatives throw you peanuts.

The family hero...

And have you hate me for keeping you|from trying to get yourself killed.

I love you too much.

Someday, you're going to find|whatever it is you're looking for.

Then you're really going to come home.

Did you ever notice|we don't have any children?

Only me.

I'd like so much to have your child.

I was the only girl in Brooklyn|who didn't get pregnant during the war.

My mother kept the statistics.

What kind of a father would I make now?

- Maybe when everything's right...|- Everything's never going to be right...

...for anybody.

But they still have children...

...and I want yours.

Ours.

Now.

There's a chance, isn't there,|I might never have you again?

You always come barging|into the Pentagon...

...asking a question|on a life-or-death matter...

...to be answered in exactly two minutes.

I'd just be an adviser.|It's headquarters stuff.

You couldn't advise a taffy|pull without slugging somebody.

I know it's touchy.

What's our official policy|in the Middle East?

This afternoon or this morning?

There's good military reason for remaining|friendly with the Arab governments...

...and none for loaning a reserve officer...

...as military adviser|to a pipsqueak nation...

...that'll be blown off the map on May 15.

You can't put out all the fires.

Suppose I go as a private citizen?

Then don't involve the Army in|any way. Don't use your rank...

...or even your right name.

Is it all right with you|if I keep the same sex?

Colonel, I am not requesting you|not to go...

...I am ordering you not to go.

That's the best|damn reason I've heard yet for going.

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