ryan is the supernicety wrote:
] ] If Michael Moore had had his way, Slobodan Milosevic
] ] would still be the big man in a starved and tyrannical
] ] Serbia. Bosnia and Kosovo would have been cleansed and
] ] annexed. If Michael Moore had been listened to,
] ] Afghanistan would still be under Taliban rule, and Kuwait
] ] would have remained part of Iraq. And Iraq itself would
] ] still be the personal property of a psychopathic crime
] ] family, bargaining covertly with the slave state of North
] ] Korea for WMD. You might hope that a retrospective
] ] awareness of this kind would induce a little modesty. To
] ] the contrary, it is employed to pump air into one of the
] ] great sagging blimps of our sorry, mediocre, celeb-rotten
] ] culture. Rock the vote, indeed.
]
] Scathing review of Fahrenheit 9/11, admittedly a movie I will
] be seeing this weekend. For those of us *liberals* who want
] to challenge our more biased thoughts before we see the movie,
] here is a good review to do so.

I'm not against informed criticism, even overheated informed criticism of populist documentaries like F 9/11, but is this article really anything more than a non-sequiturial rant? It reads more like a soap box preacher than an informed commentator. Oh well... this does seem to be the preferred form of defence for many Republicans in the USA. That ad hominem attacks are no substitute for honest debate is hard to get across, especially when some very senior Republican politicians would have no idea what it meant ... ;-)

RE: Unfairenheit 9/11 - The lies of Michael Moore. By Christopher Hitchens