Crimson Tide Page #5

Somebody asked me if we

should have bombed Japan...

a simple, "Yes, by all means, sir.

Drop that f***er. Twice."

- [Men Laughing]

- I don't mean to suggest...

that you're indecisive,

Mr. Hunter.

Not at all.

Just, um... complicated.

[Chuckles]

Of course, that's the way

the Navy wants you.

Me, they wanted simple.

- Well, you certainly fooled them, sir.

- [Laughs]

Be careful there, Mr. Hunter.

It's all I got to rely on:

Bein' a simpleminded son of a b*tch.

Rickhover gave me

my command...

a checklist, a target

and a button to push.

All I had to know

is how to push it.

They'd tell me when.

They seem to want you to know why.

I would hope they'd want

us all to know why, sir.

At the Naval War College...

it was metallurgy and nuclear reactors,

not 19th-century philosophy.

[Stifled Laugh]

"War is a continuation

of politics by other means."

Von Clausewitz.

I think, sir, that what he was actually

trying to say was a little more...

- Complicated?

- [Men Laughing]

Yes, the purpose of war is

to serve a political end...

but the true nature of war

is to serve itself.

[Laughing]

I'm very impressed.

In other words, the sailor

most likely to win the war...

is the one most willing to part

company with the politicians...

and ignore everything except

the destruction of the enemy.

You'd agree with that.

I'd agree that, uh, that's what

Clausewitz was trying to say.

But you wouldn't agree with it?

No, sir, I do not. No, I just think

that in the nuclear world...

the true enemy

can't be destroyed.

[Chuckling, Tapping Glass]

Attention on deck.

Von Clausewitz will now tell us

exactly who the real enemy is.

- [Laughing]

- Von?

[Men Laughing]

In my humble opinion,

in the nuclear world...

the true enemy

is war itself.

[Martha And The Vandellas]

Everywhere I go your face I see

Every step I take

- You take with me

- [Singing Along With Tape]

Nowhere to run to, baby

Nowhere to hide

Got nowhere to run, baby

Nowhere to hide

I know you're no good for me

But free of you

I'll never be, baby

[Yelling]

Move!

Fire in the galley! Chief of the watch,

sound the general alarm!

[Alarm Ringing]

[P.A.] Forward damage control, bring

additional fire extinguishers to the...

- [Coughing]

- Fire's out of control. He's hurtin'.

- You hit the kill switch?

- Couldn't get to it. Too hot.

[Fire Roaring, Men Shouting]

[Alarm Ringing]

[Shouting]

[P.A.] Attention, all hands.

Fire has been contained.

Damage control party,

assess damage and report to Control.

- Initiate weapons system readiness test.

- Aye, sir.

[Tapping Keyboard]

All right, station a reflash watch.

This thing could flare back up again.

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