Jonah Goldberg, you know, the wingnut blogger who embarrassed himself losing a bet to a professor when he offered that Iraq would quiet and safe by this time, is so desperate to make his backing of the war fruitful, that has graced the far back pages of USA Today with nothing left to attack than anti- war films.
His claim? If the film doesn't make a lot of money, that means anti war sentiment must also be down. Of course, as you might guess, Goldberg who himself is blogging his way to freedom as opposed to serving, says these films certainly attack the soldiers.
To be sure, many of these films don't attack the troops directly. Some are thoughtful in their critiques, others less so. Regardless, this is still uncharted territory. "These movies certainly are more willing to be critical of the military and misconduct of individual soldiers. Certainly no such feature was made like these during ... the Vietnam War," Charles Ferguson, a political scientist and creator of the anti-Iraq war documentary, No End In Sight, recently told The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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