Amy Adams Goes To War

So sorry to see this.

I absolutely adore Amy Adams - but what a horrible way to explore the war. Literally hundreds of thousands, even millions of lives impacted in an incredibly positive way -- women able to go to school and to vote for the first time in their lives -- in their historical memory -- and here we have a story about a man allegedly shot by arguably the best comported armed force in the history of the planet.

No, I mean really.

Having spent more than a few weeks in the Middle East, and more than a few months -- and having met a few of the people whose hope and future we helped to create -- I find it worse than wasteful to focus on such a topic as this -- at least as it appears from this article.

The all volunteer United States Army has conducted itself in an amazingly exemplary manner in Afghanistan, and in Iraq -- and millions here have choices and real hope they never otherwise could have enjoyed -- and we see the inestimable talents of this brilliant actress turned, apparently, to the NPR outrage over what can not amount to anything more than either a tragic error, or perhaps a willful but atypical crime. I feel their pain - but I am not so sure they feel the pain of those under the gun of religious extremists, and Iranian supported terror here in Iraq.

And NPR? Forgive me, but I prefer my government propaganda to actually support the government which pays for it - and not as NPR does. NPR seems to spend an inordinate amount of time focused on everything but the sinificant benefits of our actions here, to remove the worst mass murderer in the history of the Middle East.

I hope this doesn't cut me off from my autographed photo of Amy Adams - but color me disappointed.

I had hoped her politics would either remain private, or rational. Hopefully, the film will not fulfill my fears - but I have a bad feeling...

Amy Adams will of course be compelling in the role - as always. Let's hope this forwards, and does not tend to reverse the cause of justice and freedom there.