W or the incredible lightness of being

I saw Oliver Stone's biographical movie about George W Bush yesterday.

I am not particularly a Stone fan but I am never disappointed by his movies. There is deep understanding, empathy and humanity in his movies when it comes to the treatment of some of his characters, and when he is justified to do so. He approaches W with a light touch without discarding the dramatic dimension of his presidency and the decision to go to war in Iraq. He was able to convey the simplistic and intimate world of W and his internal struggles and how it was exploited by the neo-cons and the evangelicals. There is one person that comes really damaged from this movie and it is Condi Rice. She is portrayed as a follower, a Bush appeaser, and a woman without substance. She comes across as a 100% result of affirmative action, something she must be against and from which she profited without having any special merit.

Overall, it is good entertainement and a glance at the disastrous Bush presidency which is a mix of religious politics, Missionary ideology, entitlement, and special interests in the US.

On both sides of the divide created by Bush, the people of Iraq, Palestine, the Middle East, and American citizen have paid dearly for this dramatic lightness in US foreign policy which has become the hallmark of George W Bush's presidency.

'Yankees Go Home'

100000 protested against a troop increase and an extension of a US military base in Vicenza Italy, among them Dario Fo. Anti-US slogans were shouted and one of them was 'Yankees Go Home'.

US democracy and love for the US spreading like wildfire and Bush spending not only his 'political capital' but also the sympathy capital for the US that was huge after WWII in western European countries up to the immediate aftermath of 9/11...

Des dizaines de milliers de manifestants contre l'extension d'une base américaine en Italie
LEMONDE.FR | 17.02.07

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