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To: JohnM who wrote (6568)	12/11/2005 1:24:15 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542566

Dear John, Help me out with David Brooks. I enjoyed reading David Brooks (Bobos in Paradise) before I understood his neocon views. David Brooks review of Stephen Spielberg's latest movie Munich in his Sunday Column today in the NY Times really bothered me. Stephen Spielberg, btw, is the director that produced ET, a blockbuster movie that does not have any guns (or any kind of weapons - even the cops do not carry guns) and there were no bad guys. Munich is about an Israeli hero out to avenge the killing of Israeli atheletes at the Munich Olympic games in 1972. The central thesis of this movies is that violence can not solve anything and violence only begets violence and that starts a vicious cycle of violence. The hero gets caught up in this and in the end loses faith in his mission, in Zionism, in Israel itself. From What I can tell there are no bad guys in this movie - and that is what bothers David Brooks. In conclusion David Brooks writes : that some violence is constructive and some is destructive. The trick is knowing the difference. That's a recognition that comes from reality, not fables. This really scares the hell out of me. I know I am being simplistic, but I think this is the kind of logic that leads us into all kinds of violence - including the torture of human beings. This new neocon reality that there is good violence that kill and hurt human beings and bad violence is not anything that I can ever reconcile with. Help me out here. Sincerely, Mary