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** Not to mention that, at heart, what he was doing was ''[[Kick the Morality Pet|sanctioning assaults against his own Marines]] and then [[Dirty Coward|trying to cover it up.]]''
** 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]].
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'''Galloway''': ''They stand upon a wall and say, "Nothing's going to hurt you tonight, not on my watch."''
'''Dawson''': ''We were supposed to fight for the people who couldn't fight for themselves. We were supposed to fight for Willie.'' }}
* [[Straw Man Has a Point]]: See the above [[Misaimed Fandom]]; many viewers side with Colonel Jessep and see his "you need me on that wall" argument as true.
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