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Interpreting Clooney and his movies
March, 17 2006
Re "Best supporting neocon," Opinion, March 15
I think Boot is delusional. He has extrapolated from Clooney's movies only those policy fragments that are aligned with his neoconservative worldview. Besides "Syriana" being a protest against Big Oil, it's a statement against American intervention in the Middle East because things go terribly wrong and actually get worse (Iraq is a perfect example).
"Three Kings," besides Boot's neocon interpretation of a lament for leaving Saddam Hussein in power after the 1991 Gulf War, is principally a meditation on how we destroyed a country to save it. Both films suggest President Bush's foreign policy decisions not only have been ruinous for Iraq and Afghanistan but haven't made us safer, haven't protected freedom and continue to create anti-American sentiment. When are we going to see that the neocon worldview is dangerous and should be seriously questioned?
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