{"id":1813,"date":"2007-12-21T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2007-12-21T15:00:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T20:00:18","slug":"success-has-a-thousand-fathers-part-mmmxc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1813","title":{"rendered":"Success Has A Thousand Fathers, Part MMMXC"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to joke about it; someday, even the hard left won’t be able to deny that Ronald Reagan changed history by setting in motion the events that brought down the USSR.<\/p>\n

And when Hollywood and The Media realized this, they’d set in motion the machinery to claim credit for it themselves.<\/p>\n

And thus we have\u00a0Charlie Wilson’s War<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This is progress. With “Charlie Wilson’s War,” a trio of liberal Hollywood A-listers \u2014 director Mike Nichols, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and actor-producer Tom Hanks \u2014 have made a movie that acknowledges the evil of Soviet communism, celebrates Cold War hawkishness and more or less decries the post-Vietnam evisceration of U.S. intelligence services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hey, by 2027, we may even get a film about American war heroes in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I do want to see the movie; left-symp filtering aside, it’s one of the great – and heretofore uncovered – subjects of my lifetime; the collapse of the USSR, decried as impossible by the left even as late as 1991, a fait accompli<\/em> by the time Bill Clinton took office.<\/p>\n

It’s possible, too, that the filmmakers have fashioned a new genre of Washington-based drama, one that combines detail-laden high seriousness about geopolitics with the screwball sensibility and smart dialogue of Preston Sturges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps.\u00a0 There’s no denying that Aaron Sorkin is as talented a writer as he is a smug Hollywood liberal.\u00a0 It’s a maddening conflict for a conservative who loves good art and a good story.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’ll have to try to see it over the weekend, and give my review after the holidays…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I used to joke about it; someday, even the hard left won’t be able to deny that Ronald Reagan changed history by setting in motion the events that brought down the USSR. And when Hollywood and The Media realized this, they’d set in motion the machinery to claim credit for it themselves. And thus we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}