Movies, left and right

Scott Mendelson wrote an interesting essay about how the left and the right enjoy claiming a movie as theirs. It’s the recent release “The Green Zone” that took him to the keyboard. If you want to go beyond the fictionalized account, rent the documentary “No End in Sight.” Here’s Mendelson’s conclusion:

In the end, The Green Zone simply argues that the people who lie and deceive a populace into waging war against a nation under false pretenses are the bad guys. And the people who fail to adequately plan for various contingencies associated with that war, a failure that results in years of protracted slaughter and loss of national blood and treasure, should not be commended. It was wrong when Lyndon B. Johnson did it and it was wrong when George W. Bush did it. The fact that such an opinion is now viewed as a politically partisan one and movies that espouse it are considered liberal screeds is a troubling sign of how far down the rabbit hole we’ve plunged since the second week in September of 2001.