Steven Spielberg is an advocate for Israel. At the same time, he sees the senseless loop of hatred caused by revenge. There is no end with retaliation. As quickly as revenge achieves the death of one, another takes his/her place to retaliate in turn.
"Munich" clearly depicts this senseless cycle. No one wins. In fact, more and more lose.
At the same time, there is an unresolved issue. What do you do when your national existence is at stake? Israel is nation staring at oblivion, if her enemies had their way.
"Munich" only says that revenge will not secure peace.
I suppose Steven Spielberg could have just as easily used tapes of the Iraq invasion to prove the point. With no Al Qaeda present in 2003, our intervention has spawned an entire cadre of Al Qaeda with endless replacements. Prior training in the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan are now replaced with real experience in Iraq. The United States has generated more enemies by our perilous intervention to compensate for any we kill.
This type of behavior surely does not make our nation or the world safer.
"Mr. Spielberg, please talk with President Bush!"
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