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Once, he was a manly man to whose patriotic valor every little boy aspired.(The Week)(G.I. Joe)(Brief article)

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Once, he was a manly man to whose patriotic valor every little boy aspired. But now, G.I. Joe has gone the way of the internationalists. The eponymous hero of Paramount Pictures' G.I. Joe won't be an American soldier at all--rather, an acronym, standing for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity. Which means, in other words, G.I. JOE is not even a person, but a global crime-fighting unit, located not in America, but in the gray, boring place that is Brussels, the same city that ...

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