“I would never actually use a nuke even if I had one.”
“I’d only ever threaten to use it as brinkmanship!”
In short, the movie, WRONG IS RIGHT , seems to claim that the American Leadership is the crazy one who actually uses WMDs, i.e, the supposedly crazy and out-of-control Arab leader appears to be pointing the finger back to America, Americans, and American leaders and shouting in dismay, “You are the crazy ones—chancing getting into a nuclear war by lobbing missiles at me!!!”
SECOND IRAQ WAR 2003-?Quite likely had our generation of Americans been asked by their history professors (1) to critically review films from the Cold War era, like Rambo, and (2) to learn how their parents were manipulated to finance and support (with blood of kin and neighbors) the most expensive wars in world history, I am fairly certain that BUSH-CHENEY could not have pulled of the war-mongering they have now undertaken so skillfully (and deceitfully) in this decade.
Alas, Americans have generally been taught the wrong things about the Reagan-Bush (Sr.) Era. Too many youth were told lies like: (a) America won the Cold War or that (b) Capitalism won the war.
No!
The fact was that the West simply knew how to advertise better and to manipulate the media better in both East and West.
These media specialists and political propagandists marketed the costly Arms Race as a Winning Deal for the West and its military industries.
These opinion-makers claimed that the
Free Market= Democracy
and that an idealized free market wins over dictatorships.
They never used phrases like, “Spin won the Cold War.”
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE COLD WARThe media leaders and historians should have stated: After (1) the stock market collapse in 1987 and the after (2) Reagan & Gorbechev finally agreed to stop the arms race in the late 1980s, the Cold War came to an end.
As far as media goes, the End-of-History propaganda of the 1980s and 1990s completely neglected good analyses of the Cold War for over a decade after the Soviet Union had disappeared.
By then the damage was done.
Americans were brainwashed into thinking that bombs plus democracy equaled victory. (Doesn’t that phrase from APOCOLYPSE NOW come to mind, “Ahhh Napalm!!.... The smell of victory.”)In such contexts, classic movies like WRONG IS RIGHT , disappeared totally from the radar of American film memory.
