Biting the hand

Gary Sinise took aim at Brian DePalma in a recent interview with Chicago Tribune reporter Robert K. Elder.

Gary, sweetie, you have to see the movie you're criticizing first. Only then do your words have merit.

I think probably what happened here is that Elder caught Sinise in an unguarded moment of frustration and merely smiled as the tape rolled, thinking, "Scoop... I has it."

However, it does Sinise's cause no good whatsoever. I share Sinise's empathy with those that serve. But it sounds like he wants to make an Iraq movie that exults in the glory-n'-honor-of-service thing.

I don't need to be told by Gary Sinise or anyone else that the American military is over there trying to do good; that's perfectly obvious to anyone with half a brain.

I would much rather these people be at home trying to do good, instead of thousands of miles away, embroiled in a tribal conflict that stretches back generations and being given orders by politicians attempting to fit square pegs into round holes.