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...political savants who have been denouncing this zippy melodrama hadn't already existed, Oliver Stone might have invented them, because they fulfill his one-size-fits-all conspiracy theory. Hyper down, pundits! Don't deny Stone the right due any artist: to interpret history through his own prism. And give moviegoers the chance to make up their own minds about who shot President Kennedy. The only thing that Stone's dazzling assemblage of political-science fiction attempts to assassinate is complacency...
...political savants who have been denouncing this zippy melodrama hadn't already existed, Oliver Stone might have invented them, because they fulfill his one-size-fits-all conspiracy theory. Hyper down, pundits! Don't deny Stone the right due any artist: to interpret history through his own prism. And give moviegoers the chance to make up their own minds about who shot President Kennedy. The only thing that Stone's dazzling assemblage of political-science fiction attempts to assassinate is complacency...
...seems to be rooted in general resentment of U.S. power and influence. The network is often labeled as the latest example of U.S. cultural imperialism. Longtime French TV news correspondent Christine Ockrent calls CNN "a U.S. channel with a global vocation, but which sees the world through an American prism." She is dismissive of its most widely discussed experiment, the weekly World Report, which airs unedited stories taken from TV channels around the world. Says Ockrent: "Asking Serbian television for its reading of the situation is not providing world news but merely the Serbian version. When CNN's footage...
Through a Western prism, Saddam's behavior appears insane: How could a man facing certain defeat and quite possibly his own annihilation choose war? Three answers are possible. One is that Saddam believes his enemies will cave in. He has said as much on innumerable occasions, and he still "seems to believe that we lack the will," says a Bush Administration expert on the Middle East. Another possibility is that Saddam honestly believes he can win. "The Americans will come here to perform acrobatics like Rambo movies," Saddam declared last Friday. "But they will find here real people to fight...
Will Saddam proceed shrewdly? Might he seize on Baker's visit to claim victory and retreat? Those who have dealt with him most closely in the past, his Arab neighbors, think not. "He believes in American weakness and sees everything through that prism," says an Egyptian official. For example, according to Administration officials, the Iraqis saw the firing of U.S. Air Force chief of staff Michael Dugan as an act that might precipitate a military coup against Bush. Similarly, Baghdad is reported to have understood the President's budget troubles, Republican setbacks in the midterm elections and even Margaret Thatcher...