"Lions for Lambs" is a drama that looks at the Afghanistan and
Iraq wars to see if they have any credibility left. What is happening in
the Middle East is that they are losing the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan because they have to spend $12 billion a Month. "Lions for
Lambs" is a drama that is critical of the war's agenda. It wants to tell
people the other side of story so they get an idealistic picture of
what is going on in the Middle East. It is based on ideology which
includes democratizing the Middle East.
Tom Cruise plays a Senator
Jasper Lrring who supports the war on terror and Meryl Streep who plays
a journalist who is critical of the war in lraq. She is critical
because of the US governments incompetent mismanagement of the war.
There is also Robert Redford, who plays Professor Stephen Malley, who is
idealistic about society. His attitude inspires Todd Hayes to make
something out of his own life. Two of the professor's other students are
in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban because they think it is a right
thing to do for their country. The students Ernest Rodriguez and Arian
Finch are also idealistic about the work they are doing to spread
Democracy in Afghanistan.
The movie is corporate and
pro-government propaganda telling a story that is fiction because the US
government sent the troops to Afghanistan to meet the agenda of
protecting US interests in the Middle East. Janine Roth, the journalist
who is writing a story critical of the war for U S A Today, New York
post, Boston Globe, and Guardian, gave Lions for Lambs a bad review
because it is liberal propaganda, that is saying there are good wars and
bad wars, she makes comparisons between the current war and the one in
Vietnam. Michael Pena and Ernest Rodriguez volunteered and were sent to
Afghanistan, but Professor Malley was in Vietnam due to conscription.
Vietnam was a different kind of war being fought in a different time, as
was the first world war.
Professor Malley has strong ideals and
thinks he can change society. Senator Jasper Lrring also wants to change
the world by fighting for plutocracy in the US and over who controls
the world.
The mainstream media was critical of Lions for Lambs for being honest about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I
would give Lions for Lambs three stars. Lions for Lambs is based on
liberal ideologies and asks the viewer to question the motives for
America's war in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also think that Tom Cruise,
Meryl Streep, and Robert Redford are good actors.
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