You wrote extensively about these topics, but making a movie about it is a whole different ball game - you were at the center of it all. Scahill spoke with the Current in mid-June on the phone from New York.ĭirty Wars is a very disturbing film. in secret drone attacks worldwide? How many? Why? Why what was once scandalous is now the norm when it comes to foreign policy? Why are we attacking countries we're not at war with?ĭirty Wars, which won Best Cinematography (Documentary) at Sundance, opens in San Antonio at Santikos Bijou on July 5. On Rick Rowley’s powerful documentary Dirty Wars, based on Scahill’s book, the journalist goes deep into remote areas in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia trying to answer the question the Obama Administration won’t: who is being killed by the U.S. Which doesn’t mean Scahill is easy on the president. I disagree that that's what he's doing, but I don't question his sincerity.” “I think he's a sincere, deliberative guy who believes that what he's doing is the best way available to him as the commander-in-chief to keep the country safe. “But I don't see President Obama that way at all,” he told Huffington Post. Jeremy Scahill (investigative reporter for The Nation and the author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army and Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield) views former Vice-President Dick Cheney as a “cartoonish villain.”
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |