by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
What's Hollywood to Do?
Over the last eight years we saw Fahrenheit 911, Syriana, Redacted, Rendition, Stop Loss, Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah, and a host of other movies released about the U.S. war on terror and the Iraqi conflict. The general theme was that George Bush lied and so destroyed the Constitution and put us into Iraq, where we are waging an amoral war, among other unmentionables.
Are there additional such movies in the pipeline? After all, U.S. policy under President Obama has largely adhered to the Petraeus/Bush plan in Iraq; Obama actually accelerated operations in Afghanistan where losses are spiking. Renditions and tribunals continue. So do Predator strikes, as well as wiretaps and intercepts. Guantanamo, while not in the daily news as before, remains open. Have suddenly, say, between November 2008 and today, the above policies changed in any measurable manner, or, was the furor simply that the policies per se were never the problem, just the person who implemented and oversaw them? Take him away, and presto, the same policies become fine — and thus no longer warrant the best and brightest in Hollywood to offer much needed exposés?
All of which poses the question: What is Hollywood to do now? Do a hit piece on Panetta's CIA? Obama and the new opium war in Afghanistan? Robert Gates's unlawful Pentagon? The back-room deals of Hillary Clinton at State? In nine months, we went from lions to lambs?
Extract from: http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson073009B.html
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3 comments:
Hollywood (named after the Druid's holly stick used in magic ceremonies), has the job of telling us "half-truths". They know we will find out the truth eventually from the internet, because the MSM never tells us the truth. So Hollywood tells us half of the truth so we will dismiss the whole truth when we hear of it. Therefore Farenheit 911 explained that Dubya was an idiot and had done business with the Bin Laden family. True, he is an idiot and his family has done a lot of business with the Bin Laden family.
However, Michael Moore failed to tell the whole truth. Osama is CIA, and the Federal Government orchestrated 911 as a preface to the "war on terror".
Hollywood serves as a distraction to the real issues. Their job is to make us go to sleep.
Who controls Hollywood?
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