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Friday, September 14, 2007 12:00 AM

"In the Valley of Elah"

The first in a rush of fall films that deal with the Iraq war raises a tough question: Is it too soon to make sense of a war we're still fighting?
By Stephanie Zacharek

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  • Saturday, September 15, 2007 07:12 AM

    Americans as victims

    Shouldn't we be tired of movies that give us Americans as victims, rather than the peoples of the world who are devastated by our imperial wars? How our wars affect us might be better understood if we looked at how our wars affect everyone else. Stories about the tortured souls of the slave owners or war mongers are masturbatory exercises in affirming our all too sentimental views of our own humanity and are pretty offensive to the real victims of our adventurism.

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