I think it could be a major boost. It's really important if it reminds people that we can win the war on terror. People believed that we were in a stalemate staredown with communism that we couldn't win. We could block them. We could keep them out of our sphere's but we couldn't defeat it. Ronald Reagan showed that we can. Stand firm, take action. We Will Win!
I'm sure Kerry's folks don't want people seeing this movie
the site looks like it's only opening in Texas. I hope this can break out all over the country, with extra showings in say, Massachussets!
I've been talking to a liberal who doesn't believe that Reagan won the cold war. This person believes that the Soviet Union collapsed by itself and would have done so even without Reagan's military build-up.
I guess some people just have the liberal fog hard-set in their eyes, but I really would like to clear this person's vision.
I recently read a piece here about Guadal Canal in WWII which was interesting. The Guadal Canal was expected to be an easy, but minor, victory; it turned out to be a much more difficult, but much more major, victory since the Japanese spent an unexpectedly-large amount of resources defending it.
The Iraq war is more difficult than expected, but probably for basically the same reason: there are a lot of nasty people all over the world who want to foil our efforts there. If we surrender, the nasty people all over the world will be emboldened, but if we win they will be severely crippled.
The nasty people's strategy is intended to make us back down. If we do, they win. But if we don't, the fact that our enemies have adopted this strategy can be used to our enormous advantage. Tactically it may hurt, but in the long run it will be a major victory.