“which can only be honestly portrayed in shades of gray”
yeah, right. and how many OTHER movies “portray” ANYTHING in “shades of gray”? BTW, do you think Amanada, if given the money and the task, would make a nuanced movie about the Iraqi war presenting all sides equally? Yeah, that’s what i thought. her real objection is that the movie presents a point of view she disagrees with.
and speaking of different view points, i notice vox allows no dissent since commenting isn’t available, which means vox wants to keep its propaganda pure.
As Zack Beauchamp points out, this depiction of the war is breathtakingly dishonest. The Iraq War was not a response to 9/11: this was a war America chose, officially based on reports of weapons of mass destruction that were implausible at the time, and that have since been proven false.
With 16 intel agencies all concluding that WMDs were in Iraq, the finding of Sarin-filled artillery rounds during the campaign, the scandal about how American troops affected by chemical weapons were ignored by the VA and the recent finds of more weapons in Iraq, it seems reasonable to conclude it was all some crap that George Bush made up.
I think her real objection is that the movie was successful.
If American Sniper had failed every single commentator from her side would be using it as a teaching point against the war.
She can’t sell her beliefs about Iraq, especially to those who served over there.
Any group of people who will wrap ten and 15 year old girls in explosives and send them into crowds, do not deserve one second of understanding from me. A mother who gives her little boy a grenade to run into a group of soldiers deserves exactly what she gets.
I sent her an email saying her opinion piece was poop from an obvious sheep.