The Confederate Yankee makes an excellent point about Brian De Palma's anti-soldier, anti-American, anti-war firm.

"De Palma and like-minded souls in Venice, Cannes, and Santa Barbara, of course, feel brave for making a film that portrays the young Midwestern privates and southern specialists and street-smart second lieutenants from Jersey on the frontlines as savages, capable and yearning to unleash unbearable cruelty.

"As sweat drips in the eyes of soldiers and Marines as they attempt to bring peace to a land that has rarely known it, their enemies will be watching pirated and crudely-dubbed bootlegs of Redacted in training camps in Syria, in mosques in Saudi Arabia, and in homes throughout the Arab world, who already take a suspicious view of the American soldier in Iraq."

In another time, like 1944, De Palma would be charged with treason or sedition. No need for that. The American people are smarter than De Palma gives them credit for.

They may not like this war much but they won't much like a Hollywood director smearing the troops either.

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