Ted Turner is showing the classic Wag the Dog, a movie from 1998 that is about a president facing a sex scandal and decides to create a diversion until his reelection is over. Albania is thinking of attacking the US! Then, Albanian terrorists are threatening to enter US through Canada with a dirty bomb! And it works. They whip the country into a patriotic fervor, and they win re election. Many felt this mirrored the situation with Clinton, facing impeachment, bombing Iraq to divert attention from his sex-impeachment. But I think this movie is about 2002, Bush wanting to invade Iraq, and 911 was starring him in the face - get the PR machine working, weapons of mass destruction ( what are those? Who thought up that term? ) So now we invade Iraq, and its a disaster, so what does Bush do for 2004? Terrorists are in Iraq, different reason for being there, and those terrorists will bring the war home (just look at the TV stories - can you imagine Iraq violence in your hometown?) and if a weaker opponent gets elected, the terrorists will smell our weakness, and hit us harder next time (thank you dick cheney for saying that). Its wag the dog all over again - hollywood makes a movie about this, and we still swallow it - amazing! But this is a great movie - never grows old watching it.
No comments:
Post a Comment