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Ramboesque

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Ramboesque [ˌræmbəʊˈɛsk]
adj
looking or behaving like, or characteristic of, Rambo, a fictional film character noted for his mindless brutality
[after Rambo, First Blood II, released in Britain 1985]
Ramboism  n


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The romance of the vulnerable woman and the Ramboesque male reached its apotheosis in the saga of Private Jessica Lynch, whose injury in Iraq (actually in a car crash after considerable failures of command) was retold as rape and torture and whose rescue from a hospital where she had been well treated was used to attack the presence of women in the armed forces, as a 'stupid' decision 'to placate loud-mouthed feminists'.
The idea percolates in the perpetrator's mind that, after he's gone, his Ramboesque exploits will be reported to millions around the world and his name will become a household word.
The Dubai debacle provides some great military metaphors from cartoonists such as Ward O'Neill and Geoff Pryor (oh, to see a Ramboesque Peter Reith bare-chested in army fatigues
 
 
 
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