Have you ever killed a man?
Monday, March 24th, 2008
The interview was going swimmingly until I met up with one interviewer who was apparently anti-military. Using the Google "Do No Evil" mantra as a pretense, he asked me how many people I’d killed when I served. When I explained to him that I was MI, he then asked if I could estimate how many people were killed because of the intelligence I’d gathered. The implication was I was either an evil, efficient killer or an incompetent one - a real no-win situation.
Apropos of nothing, really - - it just reminded me of a great moment from from Benicio Del Toro’s job interview scene in The Way of The Gun which I wanted to share: