Oliver Stone

[kandrathe]

Any political element of that film is extremely subdued. This is a story about New Yorkers. You never see the planes hit the building. You see the action from the perspective of people reacting to the unthinkable. There are some parts of the film where you see people watching TV, and I think Stone got the footage from the Networks to run. The juxtaposition of people in New York watching, on national TV what is happenind a few miles down the road is a neat observation on the media age.

Occhi

Yeah, the wound is still a bit too fresh for me, and not quite healed. I remember getting ready for work that day when the first plane hit, and I heard it on CNN which was playing on the TV in my bedroom. I sat down on the bed listening and was wondering if it was an accident or intentional. Then the 2nd plane hit, captured on film and it was clearly intentional and I was pretty stunned by the implications. I realized while watching that the world changed at that moment. That we'd have to go get them at any cost, whoever and wherever they were hiding. Then I heard about Flight 77 crashing, and Barbara K. Olson's death and I was pretty sad since it was someone tangible that I "knew". I also knew it was a "Pearl Harbor" event.

However you feel about the war on Afghanistan and Iraq, I think justifications and motives will become clearer as evidence emerges that both actions were undertaken to curtail global terrorism.

Here is a hint of things to come. Al-Quds was a foreign force of Palestinians and Syrians attached to Fedayeen Sadaam Division with high level Iraqi leadership. It makes some sense that when the foot dragging of inspections ground on for half a year, Saddam took that opportunity to accept and train willing foreign jihadist volunteers for the upcoming conflict with the infidels. Interesting that Al-Quds leadership is talking about distribution of "American Leaflets" laced with Anthrax, which was one of the missing "proscribed items" UNSCOM was looking for. Now what is unfortunate is that the truth is over shadowed by US and UN mismanagement, and a totally blown public relations fiasco. Having a seemingly pro-jihadist press corps isn't helping our side either.

I heard an apropo quote tonight on the news (discussing the AP photographer's retouched fake photo's), "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes" -- Mark Twain.