United 93 is an ugly, terrifying, horrible truth, just as the '76 Olympics was similarly a terrifiying horrible bloodbath brought to the world by the same species of Islamic Totalitarianism that has been visiting bloodbath after senseless bloodbath on civilised people since at least Algeria in the early 1960's, when Fanatic cells sought relief from European "colonialism" by buthchering traffic policeman and by blowing up cafe patrons, as well as by murdering any Arabs who lacked enthusiasm for fundamentalist bloodlust.
Spielberg/hollywood smugly believe they are superior to Bush because "they dont take sides", and because all violent conflict is "destructive". The hollywood elite "know" they have a higher consciousness than Bush. They "know" they could reach the "humanity" in our enemies, who are like children that may need a time out, but who we must not seriously harm or incite with our reactive violence. Chancelor Hitler, Chariman Mao, and Joseph Stalin, to the extent they represent evil, are, to the hollywood elite, archaic assumptions that could not exist today, because student movements and popular culture would not tolerate them. To the hollywood elite Tienamen Square and the Prague Spring of 1968 did not happen.
11 young, hopeful, Isreali atheletes, or 40 Americans boarding a morning flight at the local airport. In the view of the hollywood elite, it is the failure of the West to anticipate, understand and "connect" with generations of murderous fanatics that is the cause of the America's terrorist afflictions.
Unlike the "cowboy" Bush, whose instinct at least is to join the terrorist enemy in limited battle, Spielberg/Streisand/Reiner et al are certain (knowing wink) that he (Bush) is only making things worse by trying to bring the force of war to quell the killers and their accomdating regimes.
Quite simply, these liberal 'elite' are the same kind of Americans who agonized for years about the US dropping the "big one" on the japs - another group of diplomacy resistent beligerents -- until their core beliefs were shaken at the molecular level with two atomic blasts and until Douglas MacArthur was given a free hand and five years to effect their re-education and re-introduction to the civilised world.
In November 1943 the young, brave, marines on Tarawa lost 1000 men, killing nearly 5000 fanatic japanese who senslessly fought to the last man woman and child. With those statistics, what moron would have foregone use of the bomb and invaded the japanese mainland with conventional allied forces (and as well allowed partitioning of Japan with Soviet forces)? The US use of the atomic bomb in 1945 unquestionably saved both American and Japanese lives, by ending the war quickly and decisively.
America has now lost 3000 citizens in 9/11, 2400 men in Iraq and more in Afghanistan. These losses are on top of the 92 trade center attack, Kobar towers and the USS Koll, among others, that preceded them. To their credit Bush and Rumsfield have actually kept American casualities low, as measured by any historic comparison. The left has paralized Bush in dealing with Iran and Syria, however. But, make no mistake about it, the 17 year old female Islamic suicide bomber is as lethal as a Japanese Kamakazi (which was far more lethal than the American public was ever told at the time). Indeed, the lessons of the "greatest generation" should not be quickly forgotten: There is no substitute for Victory. Victory requires application of superior force until an enemy unconditionally surrenders. Unfortunately, it is both ironic and meaningful that "peace in our time" through negotiated understanding, was also a message from Munich, delivered by Prime Minister Chamberlin in 1938 on behalf of the knowing progressives of the era. Just as with the Spielberg's message of moral equivalence today, if the elite left's appeasment compulsions should become national policy as they desire, 10's of millions, not mere thousands will likely ultimately die containing the festering evil of Islamic Gangsterism that is, among other obscenities, currently seeking nuclear weapons in Tehran.
The left has paralized Bush in dealing with Iran and Syria, however. But, make no mistake about it, the 17 year old female Islamic suicide bomber is as lethal as a Japanese Kamakazi (which was far more lethal than the American public was ever told at the time). 
Just as with the Spielberg's message of moral equivalence today, if the elite left's appeasment compulsions should become national policy as they desire, 10's of millions, not mere thousands will likely ultimately die containing the festering evil of Islamic Gangsterism that is, among other obscenities, currently seeking nuclear weapons in Tehran.