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| Afghanistan |
| Five Days at the End of the World |
| 2008-11-10 |
| My visit to Afghanistan, and the War on Terror movie that Hollywood would never make |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #3 Mr. Klaven has another article worth looking at in which he discusses how film has examined war over the decades. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-11-10 15:16 |
| #2 A long piece, but a great read. My favorite quote: "Goodwill is the key to this multifront counterinsurgency. It’s the only way to win the locals away from the brutal scum who’ve enslaved them in the past and over to some semblance of liberty and the rule of law. That’s why Information Operations—what they used to call propaganda—is so important. That’s why the bad guys work so hard to spread lies about us. And that’s why Hollywood should maybe try not to help them." "Leftist movies portraying our troops as reprobates and fools may not make it to the wilds of Nuristan. But you can bet they make it to the headquarters of our enemies and give them encouragement, not to mention ideas. They make our soldiers’ mission harder and increase the danger to their lives. And here’s a funny thing some people in LA may not understand about those lives: they’re real. Commander Perez and Rory and First Sergeant Mitchell and all the rest—they’re not characters played by actors. They’re real Americans who left real parents and wives and children at home and opted to fight our enemies in dangerous places far away. I don’t think De Palma and Robert Redford and Paul Haggis are bad men. They’re certainly entitled to believe what they want. But when they make these movies during wartime, when they endanger these soldiers and their mission, I think they’re doing something bad—something wicked, really. They are aiding and abetting the enemy’s Information Operations. And they ought to stop." |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2008-11-10 13:44 |
| #1 Two hundred fifty grand was allocated for this dump—a quarter mil! By the time that money was passed from cousin to brother to friend and handed down to the contractor who finally slapped the structure up, there was only $40,000 left. The Chicago Way! Maybe the O'man can work it. /sarcasm off |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-11-10 12:21 |