Let me make sure that we all agree that critiquing MM’s way to deliver the argument he made in F-911, does not mean to critique the point itself. If you are anti war, you secretly hope that everything in the movie is true or at least the conclusion is a logical one based on facts presented. If you are conservative or pro-war (right or left does not guarantee your stand on this issue), you watch that movie as a joke. In the end, I don’t know anyone’s position has been changed on the issue, at least not the people that I know of. People who feel strongly on this issue on both sides can take the movie however they want. Me and my very devoted democrat friend used to joke about how MM went over the board trying to frame Bush as this bad guy with his dirty secrets, and it almost made people feel sympathetic for him (Bush) since he is the underdog in the movie and MM took every chance he got to beat him in the head.
To me, whether it’s Democrat or Republican, they don’t change that much on their foreign policy. Whether it’s Mideast, East Asia, Africa, or South America, you name it, pretty much the entire world. On a few events they may differ, but in the whole scheme of things, sorry to say that they stay on the same course once they are in the office.
I will say though, when one man with strong conviction believes so firmly what he/she believes, believes that whatever he/she does is for the greater good, therefore being blind sighted by his/her own conviction, it’s a very dangerous thing. Particularly if that person is in a powerful position to make decisions that could impact a lot of people’s life. It does not necessarily take an evil person to cause horrible damage.