Hollywood's New Battle Tactic: Make War Personal : NPR

Hollywood's New Battle Tactic: Make War Personal : NPR: "Today's premiere of the $100 million action flick Green Zone will test how far that strategy can take a film commercially. Named after the American enclave in Baghdad, it stars Matt Damon as an increasingly skeptical Army investigator racing through the city's environs in 2003 looking for the weapons of mass destruction that were the Bush administration's chief argument for going to war. When he wonders aloud why their intelligence is always wrong and they keep coming up empty, a subordinate tells him they're there 'to do a job and get home safe — the reasons don't matter.' Clenching his jaw, Damon replies, 'They matter to me.'"