Baldwin Award Nominee - George

Baldwin Award Nominee - George Clooney, famed military historian and thinker, has favored a German news program with his keen, cutting and qualified observations about a potential war with Iraq:

Clooney, 41, said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was making a mistake to think a war against Iraq would be an easy win for the United States.

"I believe he thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore," said Clooney, who starred in a film about the 1991 Gulf War "Three Kings" that took a dark look at the war to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.

"We can't beat anyone anymore," added Clooney

One wonders two things:

• On what does Clooney base this observation? Is it on some new, unconventional definition of the term victory? Perhaps to Clooney it means "solves all problems, even those that are far out of scope of the war's aims, beyond any doubt, instantly and beyond debate".
• Perhaps Mr. Clooney is engaging in transferrence? His sole war movie, "Three Kings", was a piece of dung. Perhaps he's transferring his feelings about that notorious Spike Jonze stinker with actual military operations. Seems as likely as anything.

Has anyone informed Laura Billings yet?

Posted by Mitch at February 23, 2003 07:08 PM