shawa
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 Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 5:40 pm Post subject: Movie Take: Sir! No Sir! |
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GARBAGE! Can't believe Hollywood still pushing this retro propaganda.
| Quote: | Sir! No Sir!
By James Bowman
Published 4/27/2006
~SNIP~
Here, too, the so-called "Winter Soldier" investigations of 1971 are still what their publicists and media apologists said they were at the time, an expose of a military establishment rife with corruption and unpunished war criminals. You wouldn't know that Winter Soldier had subsequently been shown -- by the historian Guenter Lewy, for example -- to have been a miscellany of unsubstantiated charges brought up as part of a propaganda circus. Like the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, which organized that circus, Mr. Zeiger's film takes it for granted that the U.S. was the bad guy, the enemy the good. The question of why we went into Vietnam in the first place never even arises. I guess he assumes that it was because we were the fascists, oppressors and warmongers the communists always said we were, in which case no further explanation is needed. Naturally, too, the enemy never appears here in any other guise than as victims of the American war machine. There they were, it seems, minding their own business, when we decided to come along to oppress and murder them en masse.
You would have to say that the quality of thought and argument in all this is astonishingly low, the propaganda amazingly crude, except that since the films of Michael Moore came into vogue, stupidity, crudeness and shrill one-sidedness seem to have become common in political documentaries. The people who buy tickets to them don't expect to learn anything they didn't already know, only to have their most treasured political resentments flattered and encouraged. In other words, they come to the subject of Vietnam in the same spirit as Mr. Zeiger's interview subjects, some of whom did hard time and all of whom have a vested interest in justifying themselves retrospectively for acts that many people still regard as disloyal, if not treasonous.
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The American Spectator |
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