<< Last August, the Pentagon screened Gillo Pontecorvo's classic 1965 film "The Battle of Algiers," which portrayed the moral corruption of the French military as it resorted to torture to subdue a nationalist rebellion in Algeria in the 1950s. (The film will be rereleased in select US cities next Friday.) According to the Pentagon flyer, the movie shows "how to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas . . .. Children shoot soldiers at point blank range. Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. Sound familiar?" >>
From an article in today's Boston Globe by LBO-Talk contributor Jeet Heer:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/01/04/counterpunch/
I believe it was I. F. Stone (I paraphrase) who compared such Pentagon anti-insurgency studies to trying to follow dance steps without hearing the music.
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:51:31 -0500
>***** GILLO PONTECORVO: THE DICTATORSHIP OF TRUTH
>
>This video, hosted and narrated by author Edward Said, profiles the