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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
Matt Taibbi's criticism (at least, the reduced form of it he gave there), however, was stupid -- his complaint about the movie is that it doesn't say that we invaded the wrong country. I agree that we did, but the movie wasn't about the political issues. To me, that's like criticizing Saving Private Ryan because it doesn't talk about how the Allies contributed to the war by imposing the brutal conditions of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany.
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I'm not so sure. Taking away the context of the war completey really makes it possible to cast anyone involved from our side as a hero. It's hard to call someone a hero, even when they commit heroic acts, when they are part of a war-for-no-reason.
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