[hershey]

This rewriting of history has to stop. Despite what feelgood multiculturalists will tell you, there are absolutes, as in good and evil, right and wrong. Pearl Harbor and 9/11 didn't happen by accident, and Iran isn't working night and day to get nukes just for fun. (There must be something in the water in California.)

[TET1968]

Starting with Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, is it possible that old Clint is fronting for some younger ghost producer/director?

[Joe 6-pack]

"Crank up the Enola Gay..."

-Lewis Grizzard

[JDoutrider]

As the USMC,USN, USA WW2 Vets in my family said (all long since passed):::

2 Bombs weren't enough...

[gunnyg]

And there is a photo of a letter from Lou Lowery to Ray Jacobs, on Leatherneck letterhead stationery, dated September, 1947. It reads as follows. "Dear Raymond: I am always very glad to hear from any of the Marines who were on the original flag raising. You fellows did all the dirty work and the ones who were on Rosenthal's picture got all the credit. Up until the September issue my pictures and the correct story of the flag raising have been held in secret because the flag shot of Rosenthal's, although a phony, was a great picture and did much to publicize the Marine Corps. It is a darn shame that the men who actually were on the first patrol never received the credit they deserved. I am returning the clippings you enclosed as we have duplicates and some originals from the pics we used in the story. If you ever have occasion to visit Washington be sure and pay me a visit. Best wishes, /s/ Lou Lowery"

[dfwgator]

The lesson is, "Wars are horrible things, don't start them." I think Japan has taken that lesson to heart since the end of WWII.

[skinkinthegrass]

Good Grief :(
...E' not My Dads' Clint Eastwood any more.
E' just another whining liberal, mopin' around
some other (precieved) Anti-Western (American?)
Civilization evil...

You've made the Liberals' day, Clint.

[windcliff]

ping

[Gumlegs]

Why on EARTH would we have been nasty to the Japanese?

[onedoug]

"Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War" -Plato.

[Barney59]

I guess he didn't get to read James Bradley's sobering and excellent book "Flyboys: A True Story of Courage".

Maybe Clint would have a different take on the reason's we needed to be the victors in the Pacific. This liberal "everybody wins" crap is making me sick and threatens to pollute my children's reality. God help us through this difficult time.

[Liberty Valance]

God Bless John Wayne

[ColdSteelTalon]

Sorry Japan, during WWII you deserved no sympathy. From the death marches of Bataan to the Mitsubishi mining corporation that used our soldiers as slave labor. The Atom bomb was too good for you. And the bomb saved millions of American soldiers lives.

Nuff Said.

[Jackknife]

Clint + Koolaid = Another Hollywierdo

[Wormwood]

Am I the only one seeing a parellel between Eastwood's Red Sun and Aeschylus's The Persians?

Yeah, probably. I blame the beer.

[Protagoras]

Without having seen either movie, the vast majority here have a strong opinion of them and know the motives of the director.

Everyone could have saved the expense of making the movies if they knew that the potential audience had a mystical "vision" of them in advance.

Sometimes this site is pathetic. (alternately, maybe I just expect too much from FReepers)

[GB]

I'm a big World War II buff, and I have no problem with showing the suffering on both sides as long as there is no attempt to employ moral relativism for the motivation or values of both sides. In other words, show the suffering of the Japanese as a historical fact, but don't paint them as anything other than the aggressor and an enemy.

[GB]

I will say that the idea of "it's not about winning or losing" could be a bit problematic to say the least. IMHO, everything connected with war is ... or should be ... about winning or losing.

[sport]

I hate the suffering that our troops endured.[If that is the correct manner to express it but that was all I could think of at this time.]

But I do not care about how much the Japanese suffered.

As far as I am concerned, more of them should have been hanged for the way they treated our prisoners of war.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

"It's not about winning or losing, but mostly about the interrupted lives of young people."

Huh? What has age to do with anything? It's an "interruption" to have to defend liberty?

Totalitarians are constantly trying to enslave others.

Some generations are required to kill the totalitarians in order to hand liberty down to the next generation.

I smell the rotten stench of propaganda.

Hey Clint, why don't you do a movie about how the Lefty Baby Boomers are destroying the liberty the WWII generation sacrificed so much for on Socialism and radical individualism (i.e., self-centeredness)?