The Absence of Hollywood
military.com ^ | 7/12/06 | brian bresnahan
Posted on 07/16/2006 1:20:27 PM PDT by World_Events
"I support the troops, but not the war." How many times have we heard that from the far left Hollywood types?
No matter the count, I don't believe them. I don't believe, even for a little bit, that they support the troops. They don't support them, but won't say as much. They know the firestorm they'd find themselves in if they publicly espoused their true feelings about the military. So they stick to the cliché line, and leave others outside Hollywood, like Cindy Sheehan, to speak for them.
We never see or hear any of the "We support the troops..." from them, but we get plenty of "... but not the mission" from them.
If they honestly supported the troops we would hear it in their words and we would see it in their actions. Their support is conspicuously absent, but their anti-mission rhetoric and protests are plentiful.
If they supported the troops we would see them following in the footsteps of their Hollywood predecessors on overseas USO tours. If they supported the troops, we would occasionally find them taking some sort of action, or making some sort of speech reflecting that support. But none exist.
If they actually supported the troops, they would be making movies to tell the stories of their heroism. They would be reliving the battles of Afghanistan and Iraq on the big screen, showing the success we've had, the prowess and audacity of our troops, and sharing the courage and strength of young wives and families carrying on here at home.
But then again, their disdain for the military and its mission may have isolated them so far from what's really happening in the war on terror they might not have any ideas for positive movies about this war.
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