"Anti-war movies don't sell"

This column appeared in our local paper today. I think Jonah Goldberg is a horse's ass, and he's typically hysterical here, but he also makes a couple of interesting points. The best:

This illuminates an under-discussed dynamic of our times. Americans are both anti-war and anti-anti-war.

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20071106/oplede_06.art.htm

'Anti-' doesn't sell

Though the war in Iraq is unpopular, Hollywood is finding out that Americans aren't clamoring for anti-war diatribes.

By Jonah Goldberg

We've all heard the stories, many true, some apocryphal, of soldiers returning home from Vietnam only to be disrespected and shunned by an ungrateful nation. How many were called war criminals or spat upon is as controversial as it is unknowable. But there's one thing we know our troops never experienced. We never filled the movie theaters during wartime with films calling them war criminals, rapists and, figuratively, spitting on them or on their mission.

Not so today.