There's an old saying: "Truth is stranger than Fiction," but this case is a little different. Here is a movie with a message about mistaken US policies and what it can cost the United States.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
The main plot of The Siege, is generally ignored, since the Bruce Willis character is connected to the secondary plot. Or could the reason be that Hollywood, the media and U. S. Politicians don't want the most important lesson of the movie to be made known. That is that the movie's Arab terrorists terrorizing the United States got their training from the United States.
I had never heard of the movie when I bought it as part of a "3 for" DVD package last summer. It's a well-acted powerful movie, and I'm sorry that it never became the great hit it deserves to be. Maybe it's because the plots aren't pleasant, especially in post-9/11 USA. Most people concentrate on the "civil rights" issues of the movie, very "un-pc."
Now, why am I writing about this old movie? This isn't your classic movie review, though any movie starring Denzel Washington, Annette Bening and Bruce Willis can't be bad.
This morning, when checking my email, I saw that IMRA had sent a link saying:
U.S. moving ahead with plans to train Palestinian security forcesDeja vu for sure! That's the movie!!
The truth is that the United States is now caught in a totally, miss-conceived war in Iraq. The results will be much more dangerous for world peace than the Vietnam business. The bigshots in the the Pentagon and Congress refuse to recognize the close connections between the various International Arab and Moslem terrorists. International means the United States, Europe, Asia, the Southern Hemisphere and the Middle-East including Israel. Yes, the entire world!
Educating Iraqis in Democracy will not make them like the peaceful and respectful residents of Vermont. And of course, chastising Israel for defending herself will not make the Arab terrorists not include America as a target. The Arab terrorists, like sharks, just get hungrier, the more human blood you feed it.
There's true fear in Europe now about Arab Moslem takeovers. The Dutch feel like second class citizens in parts of Holland. France and Denmark have suffered from Arab Moslem riots. Things aren't getting better.
It certainly won't help world peace to give the Arabs here in the "PA" more weapons and more training. It's no secret that weapons given to the Arabs as part of various "peace treaties," like the Oslo Accords, were then used by the Arab terrorist to murder Jews.
The Americans just refuse to realize that they're creating more monsters, more dangers to themselves and the rest of the world! Why do they refuse to learn from their mistakes?
I understand that the World Powers won't take my advice, but maybe if they see the movie, they'll understand just how dangerous such a thing would be.