I spoke with my Republican mother recently and asked if she had seen F9/11. She said she had but also noted she'd never been so furious leaving a theater in her life and she didn't want to talk about it.
Below is an e-mail I was thinking of sending her but would like some input. Is it worth making this case to a relative? Is it worth creating tension? She is one vote in California that won't be deciding the race.
Any thoughts? I may just send this diary page to her if your comments say it more eloquently than I.
I was thinking about your "fury" over Fahrenheit 9/11. I imagine that like many people of your generation, you find it inappropriate to criticize a sitting president during a time of war. Anyone raised during WWII, a time when our country was attacked by another country and a huge war was raging in the world, would think this way. I think it was entirely appropriate for that era.
The world has changed since then. Anyone under 50 years old has known nothing except political corruption since they have come of age. (Nixon is the first president I have any real memory of). In the minds of those of us who have been paying attention, we're not at war in the historical sense. We were attacked by a handful of terrorists with a grudge. We invaded a country that was not threatening us just because our leader didn't like their leader (who happened to be sitting on a lot of oil....coincidentally). In the end, it has been proven (except in the mind of the vice president) that there was no relationship between the two events.
I think this no responsibility/no accountability sort of in-your-face incompetence might just be the beginning of the end for this current crop of leaders. As Sen. Joe Biden apparently commented to the president..."You call yourself a leader but look behind you, no one is following." His only true followers are Tony Blair, a few million Americans and the leaders of impoverished countries looking for American aid dollars. More than half of this country's citizens and most of the rest of the world want nothing to do with this fiasco.
Anyway, I think I get your fury. But do you get mine? Michael Moore is only one voice...many ex-diplomats, civil servants, ex-military, current military, Nobel Prize winners, even people with extensive inside knowledge of this administration (like the 6 counterterrorism czars that have worked under Bush and left in frustration) have stood up and said "This is not right". I'm inclined to think these people know what they are talking about.