

First, Odierno liked The Hurt Locker, and thought it pretty accurate. That's incredible. Almost universally, modern US soldiers, left and right, nevermind the top General in Iraq, despise the way they're portrayed in Hollywood (i.e., as hapless victims - In the Valley of Elah, Lions for Lambs, The Lucky Ones, if not outright psychopaths, Brian DePalma's Redacted) .


Now in fact, the worst movie of the lot (DePalma's Redacted in my view), is based on the true story of a small group of US soldiers slaughter of innocent Iraqi civilians. Accepting everything in the film as true, still, the soldiers ask, "Why would you make a movie, about the absolute worst behavior of the 150,000 or so US soldiers in Iraq at the time, and broadcast it to the world, when the vast majority of us are stuck in the middle of a war zone, trying our best to keep all hell from breaking loose - and let me tellya', we're badly outnumbered!".


It would be understandable if the Iraqis were less grateful, with 100,000 Iraqi dead, due to the botched planning of American politicians, and the military being the only Americans they can directly take this out on. But on the whole, I've gotta say, most Iraqis like our military a hell of a lot more than we do. It's ironic, because Petraeus' strategy (counterinsurgency) that finally salvaged Iraq and prevented a genocide, is a classic liberal strategy: reach out to your opposition, show restraint in the use of force, kindness and understanding in the face of violence, protect the people even at risk to yourself, and they will come around instead of fighting you.


It's ironic that a woman would be the first filmmaker in Hollywood with big enough balls to get anywhere near the war zone, both to film, and summon the psychological courage to crawl inside the soldier's heads, and experience, even if only emotionally, their lives and sufferings. It's even more ironic she's never mentioned as a feminist by women, The Hurt Locker's audience is overwhelmingly male, and none of these women seem to have a clue as to why men love Kathryne Bigelow so much or find her so sexy, mentally and physically (or, on the other hand, why most men loathe Sex and the City 2 so much while at least half the female (and even feminist!) population of the country has gone gaga for the Sex and the City drug and fantasy).
I've got one question in light of all this. Why isn't this woman running for President instead of Hillary? Good God, talk about a real feminist you can believe in. Screw Hollywood, give her the White House.
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