Reply #3: BBC Story/Review/Article

[Sal Minella]

BBC article about the movie --

"Do you want to win the war on terror? Yes or no?" asks Cruise. "This is the quintessential question of our time - yes or no." How and why we got there is not the issue, he says. "We have to move forward... do whatever it takes."

It reminded me of a long summer when Tony Blair dismissed almost every question about a potential war in Iraq by stating that it was "neither imminent nor inevitable". It was soon so "imminent and inevitable" that to question it seemed unfair on the British soldiers preparing for it in the Kuwaiti dessert.

Awkward questions about the lack of weapons of mass destruction were similarly avoided until sufficient time had passed to dismiss them as missing the point.
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"They bank on your apathy," he (Redford as as the Professor) says. "They plan strategies around it. The problem is not with the people who started this, the problem is with us who do nothing to stop it." ...for Cruise this is a very different genre - more Mission Questionable than Mission Impossible. And that suggests a mounting anxiety among Americans about their war on terror.
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Lions for Lambs is on general release in the UK.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/entertainment/7088403.stm

Published: 2007/11/10 09:17:03 GMT

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