We truly appreciate your support. Didn't any of Bush's advisors work out beforehand that invading Iraq and Afghanistan would foster so much hatred that America's name would be lower than mud worldwide? If we read the newspapers, we are misinformed...". That got the point across with real élan. The three strands are: (1) an apathetic but gifted student is steered back into making a difference by his liberal political professor; (2) 60s dissident reporter turned corporate hack, gets a scoop from a Republican senator with eyes on the prize and (3) two men of conscience (ex-students of the professor) fall and jump out of a special forces helicopter over Afghanistan's mountianous icy wastes and try to repel advancing Taliban soldiers while suffering from the impact of the drop. It just keeps getting darker and darker. America has gone to war on an idea and that's a war that can never, ever be won. Quotes.net. Not one who needs to engage in these issues (certainly no politically apathetic, young American soul) will care a jot and that, to use the ugly Americanism, sucks big time. 'Preaching to the choir' has, within its clichéd shell, a grain of the finest grit just waiting for time to turn it into a pearl. Most of us like to belong (to families, to clubs, to political parties, to social networking sites, to the church, to squads and platoons, to social circles of like-minded souls). We all know how ex-Army types like to play on these sorts of backgrounds lending credence to a political push - although it didn't help Kerry much. Bush is a born again Christian. Filed under Politics, Pursuit of Happiness, Tagged as Government, Lions for Lambs, Politics, Revolution, Rome is Burning. They're past irredeemable. Lions For Lambs is a bold and worthy attempt at some correction even if its effectiveness could turn out to be tragically moot. Ideas stay swirling ineffectively in their own pools, unable to migrate from one to another, impotently and resolutely not informing and affecting. Two soldiers were killed and three wounded when their unit was struck by a roadside bomb in Baghdad. We all base our arguments and defend viewpoints from 3rd hand received information. Do the math! But. The problem's with all of us who do nothing. They do what they do not out of a high minded political ideal, but out of a self-serving, self deluded fantasy of doing good (for themselves). Yes, it's a 'talkie' movie but then Transformers wasn't intended to be biting political criticism... And sometimes that tumbleweed lack of political bite is not a good thing. Cruise nips out to answer a call. It stars Redford, Tom Cruis…. We need to expunge the word 'embedded' from journalism for a start. Although the movie was an obvious left-wing liberal propaganda piece it still struck a nerve for me. 11 Nov. 2020. We need to know our leaders know what they are doing. By: PoliticalTravis. We don't, of course. Lions For Lambs Script Roadside bombs have claimed the lives of eight US soldiers in Iraq. It's the end of 2007. Tonight I went to see the movie Lions for Lambsand was struck by the professor’s statement “Rome is burning” when referring to the current state our our country. We crave and bow before that simple human need - to be accepted and valued by others. His heart and mind both seem to be in the right place (liberally speaking). “Leave it to the next generation,” has always been my opinion. All there is, is political power leaking from the skewed wet knot of almost perpetual population panic. Tonight I went to see the movie Lions for Lambsand was struck by the professor’s statement “Rome is burning” when referring to the current state our our country. And the problem is not just with the people who started it. While we all stand around expounding very eloquently about how bad things are and whine about things getting worse all of the time, the country is falling apart because nobody wants to step up and try to fix things. "Lions for Lambs Quotes." My disease is a pandemic in the United States. It beggars belief because of a reckless assumption. The problem's with all of us who do nothing. Rome is burning while we all stand back and watch hoping that somebody will pick up a bucket, somebody besides me. Are you 'right' or 'left'? I was reminded of the court case in which the defendant was asked a "Yes" or "No" question and said he was unable to answer it because the question was loaded and an answer would condemn him unfairly. Newsflash. He's politically switched on as a film-maker and even as a mere actor (in his own critical and youthful words, "sissy boys"), he can still produce very relevant work. (Susan Sontag forgive me for using “Illness as Metaphor” may you rest in peace.) Very few of the sources of this information are personal truths eked out from experience. Its meaning is almost pornographically selfish and egotistical. What surprises me is the way in which most information and evidence is gathered these days - TV, internet, newspapers. Taking part in communication and dialogue is one of the great things this nation has to offer. The problem America has with their latest enemy is that it is not geographically bound. I remember years ago stating that this country was ripe for another revolution and that I just hoped that it would happen after I die so as not to disturb my fun or push me to take a stand. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.". He would rather impose his God-given will violently on people than have peace. Hey, it's Hollywood so it's never going to be profound or explicitly insightful (movies, as Redford notes, are now all about the bottom line) but it's a dent in the mountain of apathy where some brave souls can start the ascent. Four troops were killed when an explosion struck their vehicle north of Baghdad, while an airman was killed by another roadside bomb in Tikrit. We just have to remove the church (and its attendant fantasy) and the act makes so much more sense. From my point of view, the debating was the most compelling aspect of Lions. . We assume those that lead us are smarter than us because we put them there when of course this is simple minded tosh.

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