[okie01]

"Is The 'War on Terrorism' a Real War?"

If you have to ask this question, then you're going to lose this war.

[gleeaikin]

An elderly black friend of my recently deceased white husband has been urging me to see Munich. Our 40+ years of marriage was poisoned by my Korea veteran husband's PTSD. Of course, in the early years nobody had heard of post traumatic stress disorder, or understood the alcoholism, drug addiction, depression and other mental disorders that proceeded therefrom.

In greatly abbreviated form,let me say he ventually realized (as our son entered adolescence) that he felt tremendous guilt for bayoneting a young Chinese Communist soldier. His anguished cry was,"I killed somebody's son." Our last 15 years were relatively free of his PTSD. I hope our returning service personnel from Iraq and Afghanistan will get help a lot earlier in their lives. Our son is over there now.

Our friend wants me to see Munich because he feels it will give me a better understanding of the forces that were haunting my husband.

[CBart95]

Spielberg's collossal arrogance allows him the 'free pass" to join join the ranks of former Presidents who thought they had the royal priviledge to define what "is" is.

And in the process, create a wake of ass-kissing worshippers to fawn, prontificate and babble on how wonderful he is while he in fact aids the cause of current terrorists and denies the factual proof of other miscreants' dreadful acts in the recent past.

That he is also Jewish makes this an unbeliveable, almost inconcievable, outrage.

As dreadful as he is however, it is the legions of supporters or apologists who turn a deaf ear and a blind eye on tragedies of this magnitude that make this so dreadful. Thier forefathers stood by as millions of innocent jews were herded into slaughter houses barely three score or so of years ago.

[Johnnyboy2000]

"United States when it bombed the German city of Dresden in World War II."


You should correct this to read "Great Britain when it bombed the German city of Dresden in WWII."

The US was not all that involved in the firebombing of Dresden. As far is I know it was an entirely British mission. I also think your article needs a new title. I like the article, but your article lead me to believe that it was going to be some anti-Bush, aunties diatribe, rather than the well thought out piece it was. I don't agree with some of your assertions, but all in all I think you made some good points.

[agere_contra]

Spielberg made a film to extol the West Jordanians and their murderous attacks on the Jewish people. And the article-writer thinks this film shows him to be an intellectual lightweight?

Plus it was us who bombed Dresden, not the Americans. Quite a timely historical reminder actually: unless we pre-empt Ahmadinijad's genocidal fantasies we will rapidly move into a world of fire-bombed cities.

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[rollo tomasi]

Munich--- an exercise in "humanizing demons rather than demonizing humans".

This quote (Paraphrased) either came from an article on another thread or from one of the posters response. I forgot but it was a great quote.

[Mr. Mojo]

The war is certainly not traditional, but it's very real.

[JasonC]

Author suffers from the delusion that there is any status or honor in being anybody else's enemy. And peddles the same ridiculous moral equivalence nonsense the director is selling. Nobody is buying, because it is nonsense. No, the Palis don't have a right to kill Jews wherever they find them, and yes every civilized country on earth has the right to kill such murderers wherever it finds them. And the only relation between them, is that violating right by the first, makes the second praiseworthy. Period, the end.

[pawdoggie]

Mr. Schulman needs to pick up a newspaper, or visit an Islamist web site. They're calling Israelis and Jews lots of things these days, but his honorific "enemy" aint one them.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Someone should ask Spielberg if the War on the Barbary pirates was a real war.
I'm sure there were more than a few back then who thought so.

[rollo tomasi]

Oh, I forgot, also the destruction of Israel and every country comprised of infidels. Not a hard reason to grasp.

Of course those who don't understand look for understanding with people so ingrained in their faith that they are willing to blow themselves up.

Of course then there are the mullahs themselves...

[hope]

For someone who lives in a fictitious world, I suppose there's not much that is real to them.

[ChadGore]

How can these people ignore the reality of the Taliban route in Afghanistan, the rolling up of 3/4s of AQ, Qaddafi giving up thier WMD program, Capturing KSM, the fall of Baghdad, the death of Uday, the death of Qusay, pulling Saddam out of his hole, and free elections across Afghanistan and Iraq?

Victory in Afghanistan has happened.

Victory in Iraq has happened.

This is just so mental gymnastics to try and hide these facts.