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News is trickling out that Paramount's big-screen adaptation of GI Joe will be decidedly non-American, and focus on a multi-culti, international task force that fights (presumably) some PC villain like "evil corporations" or white supremacists.

Obviously, fans are mad. And I'm frustrated, too, as political correctness has birthed more loathsome attacks on free-speech than any ol' PATRIOT Act could ever muster. But, all that said, many GI Joe fans forget that the seemingly patriotic, rah-rah cartoon was itself quite neutered and PC. Recall that no one was EVER allowed to die, or even really get injured. Everytime a plane, tank, or ship blew up, a man safely parachuted out -- be he good guy, or bad guy. And despite taking place at the height of the Cold War, Joe was never allowed to engage America's actual villain (Soviets and other Commies), but instead had to face Cobra, a made-up international terrorist organization.

Anyway, there's some irony in the fact that these days, calling the enemy in the new Joe movie "a ruthless international terrorist organization, bent on world domination" (as the opening credits of Joe always stated), will most likely be verbotten, it's always worth remembering that cartoon Joe was weak sometimes.

Except for this time. This time it totally kicked ass.