SYRIANA
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:25 pm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365737/
Corruption? Corruption is our protection! Corruption keeps us safe and warm! Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets! Corruption... is why we win!
Take a notebook, and a personal voice recorder, take notes, bring some coffee. Like the NY Times mentions: "...is a movie that demands and rewards close attention...". This little feel-good nugget is based on the book "See No Evil" by Robert Baer, a CIA veteran who was spending some "quiet time" in Beirut and I believe, Iraq. Foreign policy changes, budget cuts, and very prominently displayed oil interests contribute to an increasingly unstable climate leading to present, and i'm sure, future conflicts in the area. I'm not sure if my description really helps AT ALL, tell ya the truth. Watch it.
"Syriana" is a term that appears often in the briefings of certain neoconservative think tanks to describe, in director Stephen Gaghan's words, "a hypothetical reshaping of the Middle East," though he said he used it more specifically to refer to "the fallacious dream that you can successfully remake nation-states in your own image."
Directed by Stephen Gaghan (directed the movie Traffic)
Corruption? Corruption is our protection! Corruption keeps us safe and warm! Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets! Corruption... is why we win!
Take a notebook, and a personal voice recorder, take notes, bring some coffee. Like the NY Times mentions: "...is a movie that demands and rewards close attention...". This little feel-good nugget is based on the book "See No Evil" by Robert Baer, a CIA veteran who was spending some "quiet time" in Beirut and I believe, Iraq. Foreign policy changes, budget cuts, and very prominently displayed oil interests contribute to an increasingly unstable climate leading to present, and i'm sure, future conflicts in the area. I'm not sure if my description really helps AT ALL, tell ya the truth. Watch it.
"Syriana" is a term that appears often in the briefings of certain neoconservative think tanks to describe, in director Stephen Gaghan's words, "a hypothetical reshaping of the Middle East," though he said he used it more specifically to refer to "the fallacious dream that you can successfully remake nation-states in your own image."
Directed by Stephen Gaghan (directed the movie Traffic)