Concerning the flick "In the Loop," Louis Proyect wrote that >We are led to believe that Pentagon generals, British foreign office >functionaries, and inside-the-beltway policy wonks could be capable of not >mentioning a single word about the ostensible enemy despite the reality of >White House obsession with Saddam Hussein in 2003.<
My impression was that the movie's lack of any substantive references to what the war was about or who it was against was central to its point. All of these people were totally obsessed with themselves and their petty competitions, so that even the Rumsfeldian leader of the war camp never mentions the enemy. It's a version of the "banality of evil." -- Jim Devine / "All science would be superfluous if the form of appearance of things directly coincided with their essence." -- KM _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
