Gimli on France and M. Moore
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Watcher of Weasels has a link to a wonderful report of a talk that John Rhys-Davies gave:
bq. In response to a question from Scarborough about the likelyhood that Michael Moore might be named filmmaker of the year at the Cannes Film Festival, Rhys-Davies had this to say: "Well, you see, the French have a lot of problems internally. And the one unifying factor that they can find in their society is to bash America. So don‘t be surprised by anything the French do. Their society is so troubled and it‘s about 24, 25 years away from major civil war. So you can discount most of what they do."
bq. Later, Rhys-Davies added this: "My beef with him would be this, that, when you knock America, you run a real danger that you will change the perception of the world -- that the world has of America. Right at the moment, the Americans are doing something very, very important and I believe very virtuous. The notion that we could take Iraq, for instance, which has a strong middle class, and turn it right in the middle of Arabia and turn it into a functioning democratic capitalist society and use that to galvanize the rest of the Arab world out of the 13th century is a virtuous vision. And you could disagree with the tactics of it or not, but the vision is admirable. And not to see that is deplorable. Moore is making a fortune out of his anti-Americanism. And I don‘t blame the guy for making a buck, but he‘s not serious."
Excellent thoughts!
Posted by DaveH at May 20, 2004 12:58 PM