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...news, and the leader's name was not Bush, but Nixon. The only competition film explicitly about U.S. foreign policy, Hiner Saleem's Kilometre Zero, presents Iraq's sorry history from an anti-Saddam, pro-U.S. viewpoint and ends in April 2003 with its Kurdish hero exulting as coalition soldiers march into Baghdad. (One critic called the film "insufficiently anti-American.") There was also a British documentary, Adam Curtis' The Power of Nightmares, which traces the parallel inception and growth of Islamic fundamentalism and American neoconservatism, and diagnoses dire consequences from both. The film played like Fahrenheit 9/11, only...
...film and the number of people who stood in long lines to see it. As a little person who stands just over 4 ft. tall, I've found strength in the depiction of Yoda. Before Star Wars, I had never seen anyone of such small stature portrayed as a hero with tremendous strength and dignity. Lucas brought Yoda to life, all 2 ft. of him, and created one of the greatest screen characters of all time. "Judge me by my size, do you?" That line from The Empire Strikes Back gave me courage as I was growing up and made...
...flip-flops. She has been making the rounds, smiling broadly. She's not talking military, not thinking military. She just likes being with friends, nodding along to the music. There are a few other characters in attendance--the cadet band thrashing out speed-rock covers, a Vietnam War hero dispensing advice at the bar, an exchange cadet from Uzbekistan playing drinking games in the corner--but by and large, it's all Firsties. The mood is convivial and congratulatory. The Firstie Club is like a sports bar where the cadets gather to cheer on their favorite team: themselves...
Amerine's war-hero status--he was a guest of honor at President Bush's 2002 State of the Union address, although he ceded his position at Laura Bush's side to another survivor from his special-forces team--seems to give him license to act as a great counterweight to the misty-eyed patriotism of West Point. He was recruited to teach international relations--and the realities of war. "Major Amerine doesn't sugarcoat anything," says Cadet Jonathan Lum. "His basic lesson is, There's a percentage of you that will...
...says. "That's what I would want for myself." He manages to pack a war's worth of heresy against Army doctrine into a 50-min. class. He presses cadets to enunciate a meaningful difference between insurgent leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi and West Point icon and Revolutionary War hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Pole who was the foreign fighter of his era. What is a terrorist? Amerine asks. Someone who flies planes into buildings, says a cadet. The Japanese did basically that, says Amerine. Someone who kills civilians, says another. The U.S. did that in Dresden, Amerine replies...