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** Colonel Jessup ''may well'' have been right - but he still lied under oath, falsified evidence and tried to get two ordinary soldiers to bear the consequences of his actions. You can't claim a place in an organisation that claims to place a high value on Honour after doing something like that. As the saying goes, "There's the right way, the wrong way, and the Marine Corps way". Right or wrong, what he did wasn't the Marine Corps way.

*** This is a very conflicting case, because what Jessup is saying is essentially right, but he's saying it for all the wrong reasons.

*** Jessup is using the honor and reputation of the US military in general to try and cover up the fact that he himself personally lacks those virtues and has been teaching his men the wrong lessons. It's called 'wrapping yourself in the flag', although usually its done by politicians.

** The worst part is that Jessup's breakdown isn't supposed to be the center of the movie - it's supposed to be about the duty of the strong to protect the weak, and how Jessup betrayed that duty when he had a kid brutalized and accidentally killed him for being weak. Nicholson should have been cast as Weinburg, not Jessup, so that he could have put his personality behind it. As is, everybody remembers Jessup talking about [[Necessary Evil]].

{{quote|'''Lt. Weinberg''': ''They beat up on a weakling, and that's all they did! The rest is just smokefilled coffee-house crap! They tortured and tormented a weaker kid! They didn't like him! So, they killed him! And why? Because he couldn't run very fast!''