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<\/a>Max Boot<\/a> at Commentary<\/i> magazine writes:<\/span><\/p>\n
I once wrote a column<\/a> congratulating a well-known Hollywood liberal\u2014George Clooney\u2014for making \u201cneocon\u201d movies, i.e., movies like \u201cThree Kings,\u201d \u201cThe Peacemaker,\u201d and even \u201cSyriana<\/a>\u201d that support active American intervention in the world in support of our ideals as well as our strategic interests.<\/p>\n
Now we can add some more Hollywood liberals to the \u201cwho knew they were neocons?\u201d club. To wit, Mike Nichols, Aaron Sorkin, and Tom Hanks.<\/p>\n
This is the trio responsible for \u201cCharlie Wilson\u2019s War<\/a>,\u201d which I just saw and loved. For those of you who haven\u2019t had the pleasure yet, the movie tells the story of how a conservative, hard-partying Texas Democratic Congressman named Charlie Wilson got together with a right-wing Texas socialite and a blue-collar CIA officer to vastly increase the amount of American covert aid being delivered in the 1980s to the mujahideen<\/i> fighting the Red Army in Afghanistan. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Boot\u2019s remarks are brief and thus lacking in nuance, but I admire their counterintuitive spirit. In fact, I think it would be fantastic if Universal Studios began quoting comments like these in ads pitched at conservative audiences, just as New Line Cinema recently quoted<\/a> a controversially favourable Catholic review of The Golden Compass<\/a><\/i> in ads pitched at Catholic audiences.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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