my country ’tis of thee

Some days, my heart just swells with pride for my dumb country.

At Powerline, the subject was Hollywood’s antiwar movies, and a reader wrote in:

I recently returned from a 15 month deployment to Iraq. I was with a combat unit at one of the more austere forward bases. During redeployment, we had to spend a few days at one of the large airbases in Iraq, waiting for our flight out. These bases have all the amenities of home - gyms with new equipment, pools, Burger Kings, and movie theaters. It’s a different world. And what was the movie theater playing? “Rendition”! I kid you not! The AAFES and Morale/Welfare/Recreation folks must have tin ears. If there’s a similar example for going out of the way to demoralize your own troops, I’m not aware of it.

I think it’s a plot to sow hatred for Hollywood among the troops!