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US-made Apocalypse now, and then 10 Years, 9 Months ago
In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything that moves".
As Barack Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the orchestrated hysteria and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissinger's murderous honesty.
As a witness to the real human consequences of aerial savagery - including the beheading of victims and many children, their parts festooning trees and fields filled with the stench of human shit - I am not surprised by the disregard of memory and history, yet again. A telling example is the rise to power of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge, who had much in common with today's Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). They, too, were ruthless medievalists who began as a small sect. They, too, were the product of an American-made apocalypse...
According to Francis Ford Coppola, his "Apocalypse Now" may be considered anti-war, but is even more anti-lie. “The fact that a culture can lie about what's really going on in warfare, that people are being brutalized, tortured, maimed, and killed, and somehow present this as moral is what horrifies me, and perpetuates the possibility of war”. Coppola's stunning vision is about the heart of darkness in us all. A global multi-award winner, including two Oscars, the classic and compelling Vietnam War epic stars Martin Sheen as Army Captain Willard. A troubled man sent on a dangerous and mesmerizing odyssey into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade American colonel named Kurtz (Marlon Brando) who has succumbed to the horrors of war and barricaded himself in a remote outpost.
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