tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248447883714712696.post1313623145271859285..comments2024-03-25T15:02:25.695+11:00Comments on oz.Typewriter: Vice: Not So Much a Film Review as a ReactionRobert Messengerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04366507489948676594noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248447883714712696.post-66341812543237171012018-12-30T05:55:41.237+11:002018-12-30T05:55:41.237+11:00Thanks for this perceptive review. Although your r...Thanks for this perceptive review. Although your reluctance to point fingers or cast blame shows an admirable humility, this American says to go right ahead. Speaking the truth about what one sees is a right that isn't forfeited because of one's own faults.<br /><br />Although Australians are far more knowledgeable about the US government than Americans are about almost anything Australian, I wonder if any world citizen -- at least in countries whom our country didn't actually attack -- can know just how bad these guys really were, upending fundamental American ideals with an open contempt for those who would uphold them. (I grew up knowing that whatever our arrogance in places like Vietnam, Chile, Iran, Americans would never, could never, torture as a matter of policy.) How they made me, a moderate left-winger, yearn for the days of decent leaders of the right like Hoover, Eisenhower, Ford, and even the elder George Bush (under whom Dick Cheney, not yet fully sinister, served as Secretary of Defense).<br /><br />I look forward to the movie very much.John Cooperhttp://atypeofmadness.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248447883714712696.post-32577267565589759042018-12-29T15:35:58.052+11:002018-12-29T15:35:58.052+11:00Thanks for this review (and the heads up about the...Thanks for this review (and the heads up about the focus group -- not really sure what to make of its inclusion; I'll have to see for myself). One wonders what Cheney himself thinks of the movie. My reaction is one of "it's too soon!" The world will be picking up the pieces of the Iraq adventure for a long time to come. Thanks, Dick.Nick Merrittnoreply@blogger.com