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Syriana
" Movie: Syriana, 2005
Director: Stephen Gaghan
Studio: Warner Brothers, Inc.
Based upon suggestions from the book entitled: See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism, by Robert Baer Copyright 2003, Three Rivers Press
It isn't often that I recommend anyone seeing a motion picture. The last one I saw was "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy," but in this case I am suggesting that all Greens go to see a movie which at press time was not even released yet.
Based loosely on facts and situations in the Book See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism by Robert Baer, the film Syriana promises to bring the evil truths of the developed world's addiction to oil to the attention of the average movie going audience in a big way.
Featuring topline stars George Clooney, Matt Damon, William Hurt, Amanda Peet and others, this film is a spy thriller set in the murky world of corporate oil deals, international politics, CIA clandestine assassinations and a view of Muslim terrorists as disgruntled, unemployed indigents who are drawn to terrorism by destitution and lack of hope for the future.
Robert Baer, the gentleman who wrote the book that inspired the movie is a retired CIA middle east operative who spent many years in the region and tells all in a book that condemns not only the inept abilities of the CIA to gain meaningful intelligence on terrorist groups, but also spotlights the agencies
close support for the imperialist oil ambitions of the United States.
Here is what Robert D. Steele, (a retired CIA middle eastern operative himself,) wrote about Baer's book in a review on Amazon.com. "As a former clandestine case officer, leaving the Agency in 1988 after unsuccessfully chasing terrorists for a few years, I knew we were in bad shape but I did not realize just how bad until I read this book. The author, working mostly in the Near East (NE) Division of the Directorate of Operations, and then in the Counter-Terrorism Center when it was just starting out, has an extremely important story to tell and every American needs to pay attention. Why? Because his account of how we have no assets useful against terrorism is in contradiction to what the Director of Central
Intelligence (DCI) told the President and his top advisors at Camp David on Saturday 15 September."
Further, he suggests: "The author uses his own investigation for murder (he was completely cleared, it was a set-up) by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and at one point by the Secret Service, to shed new light on the complete break-down of internal security processes within the CIA. At its lowest point, he is pressured by DO management with a psychological evaluation to determine his fitness for duty--shades of Stalinism! I know this technique, of declaring officers unfit for duty based on psychological hatchet jobs, to be a common practice over the past two decades, and when Britt Snider was appointed Inspector General at CIA, I told him this was a "smoking gun" in the 7th floor closet. That it remains a practice
today is grounds for evaluating the entire management culture at CIA.
There is a fourth story in the book, a truly interesting account of how big energy companies, their "ambassadors" serving as Presidential appointees within the National Security Council, and corrupt foreign elements, all come together." Robert D. Steele, review at: http://tinyurl.com/a2vtt
The movie Syriana promises to be a blockbuster for Warner Brothers and I suggest that all Greens in California see this movie so they can relate to many individuals who will pay the money for
a spy thriller. The more 'uneducated' people we can relate to, the greater our base can become. Intelligent criticism of this movie will provide you with a powerful tool in discussions with
friends and associates about true alternatives to war and business as usual in the oil friendly world of George Bush and Dick Cheney. Go see it!
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