Good newspaper column by Debbie Schlussel, a friend of ours who is syndicated from Detroit.
Debbie attacks a new movie called "The War Within" produced by the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban.
Debbie calls Mr.. Cuban “the Worlds Most Annoying Sports Fan.”
I don’t know about that, but he does appear to have a moronic streak.
Mr.. Cuban’s movie is about a Pakistani immigrant, a suicide bomber, who blows up New York's Grand Central Station.
The producers want us to sympathize with him –sort of your Nice Islamist Boy Next Door - as he labors to kill as many men, women and children in New York as he can.
Mr.. Cuban’s movie wants you to feel his inner pain.
The director is quoted as saying: "How are we ever going to understand what's going on right now if we don't see these people (he is referring to terrorists) as human beings?"
“I am a firm believer in empathy” says the director, “of coming into awareness of the experience of another.”
Can you imagine during WW2 if we prattled in movies or other media about the humanity of Hitler?
Picture Edward R Murrow with a microphone on a London rooftop waxing sensitively about the little dictator:
“He likes little kids, he has a nice girlfriend. He believes in exercise. He doesn’t eat meat. He likes dogs. He’s even against smoking.”
Give us a break. It’s not the “War Within” we have to worry about. It’s the War Without. The real war that is killing real people and seriously complicating lives in every society in the World, particularly ours.
A Federal Judge in Northern Virginia has refused to throw out a confession by a terrorism suspect who claims he was tortured in a Saudi prison, that the statements were false.
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali will go on trial on charges of plotting to kill President Bush.
Abu Ali's statements to his Saudi jailers, in which he admitted being part of an al-Qaeda plot, are central to the government's case.
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