Rick Moran has already touched on the ‘Scott Thomas’ fiasco - Hot Air is doing a good job of covering the latest developments. Meanwhile, Hollywierd has taken it to the next level with a whole flotilla of flicks due out next year explaining in great details how horrible things are in Iraq. Hmmmm….is something happening in 2008 ?

Incidentally,  proving once again that Liberals have no sense of self-awareness, note how often the NYT article uses some version of the phrase ‘impetus for immediacy’. So they’ve spent four years ignoring the defining struggle of our times, but now they’ve finally took their head out of the sand, we’re supposed to admire their quick reactions ?

More to the point though, consider how all the this exposes the absurd double-dipping in the Liberal position. On the one hand, we have Scott Thomas’s corpse-desecrating, wounded-mocking savages cruising round stalking dogs in their Bradleys, on the other there’s Hollywood’s lachrymose portrayals of soldiers as innocent babes in the woods being sacrificed by the BushChimpler.

So which is it ? Sociopaths or victims ? Answer: what ever serves the Left best. Ditto, don’t bother asking a Lib why, if murder and mayhem are so common in Iraq, they don’t just report them straight, rather than hire fantasist dullards like ‘Scott Thomas’ to cobble together extracts from ‘5000 Great War Movie Clichés’.

Still, even all the above is letting the Left off the hook. There are wider issues here. Liberals are obsessed with the idea that even the most horrific examples of medieval savagery can be explained by reference to ‘root causes’. Similarly, they profess to live in fear of stirring up the ‘Arab Street’. Well, OK, Libs: you win. We’ll concede that there’s a whole bunch of otherwise perfectly peaceful Muslims driven to violence by the evils of America. Next question: are these ‘peaceful Muslims’ more or less likely to turn violent when faced with approximately 2500 movies depicting US troops as unhinged savages ?

After all, these people have spent years refusing to confront Islamic terrorism head on, supposedly for fear of provoking ‘Islamophobia‘. Indeed - in the exception that proves the rule - the makers and cast members of ‘24‘ had to carry out public acts of penance after their show got dangerously close to suggesting that there may be Islamic terrorists out there. Meanwhile, Hollywood makes movies that qualify for the Bin Laden Seal of Approval with nary a second thought.

So, let’s check the scorecard here: dramas based on stuff that actually happens are verboten, but hysterical fantasises featuring troops as homicidal killing machines are cutting edge art ?

If only. That’s the final thing, of course. It’s all so trite. Troops as slaughterbots ? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

OK, Libs, go produce your squalid little movies , but just shut up about how outré you all are. At this point, I feel the need to quote from an excellent review of a movie that explains soldiers and their motivations far better than any number of these dreary productions:

I’ve no doubt critics (I don’t read them until I post my own review) are calling 300 old-fashioned, and worse. But they’re wrong. After forty years of liberal rule in Hollywood it is nihilism that’s old-fashioned. It is moral relativism that is tired. It is political correctness, the always-noble people of color, the always-evil white guy, and the metrosexual that is cliched. A film with a clear divide between good and evil is something new. A film that celebrates patriotism, heroism, sacrifice, freedom, and honor is something revolutionary. In 1955 300 would be old-fashioned. In 2007 it makes a counter-culture statement as strong as Easy Rider in its day.

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