| Monday, July 5, 2004 |
18:46 - No leftist ideology survives contact with the enemy
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/05/1089000082744.html
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This is a breath of fresh air. Via Tim Blair, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (the latest in the ever-growing Hollywood Union of Actresses with Bizarre and Pseudo-Exotic Names) has had the strength of will to pit her anti-war views and reactionary anti-"redneck" prejudice against hot, sandy reality:
Another adventure that Romijn-Stamos is unlikely to have made as a model was a recent trip she and De Niro made to visit US troops in Iraq.
Staunchly anti-war, Romijn-Stamos said the visit had been a real eye-opener and it seemed to have given her a slightly different perspective on life.
"It was unbelievable and I'll never forget it," she said. "I grew up in Berkeley, California, which is the most liberal, left-leaning place you could ever find and I had zero contact with our military.
"So I had a pre-conceived notion they would all be rednecks who were only there because their daddies had been in the army. But I was wrong and I met the most amazing people over there.
"It was 130 degrees [Fahrenheit] and they were walking around in full fatigues and we'd get there to find out they'd been waiting in that heat for three or four hours. And they had so much perspective on it, they were really deep and smart and had a lot of opinions."
As I recall, Sean Penn was decidedly more down-to-earth after his visit to Baghdad, too. So were all those "human shields", let we forget.
Or lest the people in the six lines pouring out the doors from the ticket counter at the movie theater today take the slightest notice. (No, they weren't all there for Spider-Man 2.)
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Brian Tiemann
