How does Angelina Jolie fit the picture? She’s a UN Good Will Ambassador and that’s about as much politics as she’s dipped her toes in. But you don’t become a member of the CFR for shits and giggles. Just look at the list I linked to above. Yes, you pay to get in, but you’d expect a Hollywood actress to pay for an entry into an exclusive country club, to buy an island in the Caribbean or to sip martinis on Roman Abramovich’s yacht. Jolie said recently that her heart and her interests are on foreign policy issues. In the same article in San Jose Mercury News she said that ”among the experts she consulted while making the film were Richard C. Holbrooke, the architect of the Dayton accords that ended the conflict in December 1995; Gen. Wesley Clark, the former NATO commander; and foreign correspondent Tom Gjelten, who covered the Balkan wars for National Public Radio.” She missed to mention Christianne Amanpour in this breath, but why nitpick? Need she say more, though?
So, yes, forget the $13 million spent, it’s peanuts. No money has been made? Oh, well. With this movie, the CFR and Angelina Jolie launched a PR campaign against the Serbs, without profit considerations, without artistic merit, without regard for the truth… Walter Lippman, the founder of the CFR, was infamous for his stoic disregard and disdain for truth and accuracy in public discourse, and the organization has never betrayed those founding principles. Jolie is faithful to them as well as she puts herself into the overt service of anti-Serb propaganda.
We can conclude that this movie is neither a random nor an isolated attempt at reminding the world that the Serbs are maniacal rapists and murderers. It is safe to say that the forces that declared us “murderous assholes” are still heavily engaged in defamation of the Serb nation. To what specific purpose, does it make a difference? Maybe to shut Milorad Dodik up, maybe just to please their Islamic friends by currying a small favor, who knows? The truth is, if this propaganda campaign is an overture into a larger anti-Serb assault, we are already few steps behind. Serbs should have prepared for this about 15 years ago, when the first movie unjustifiably showing us as terrorists came out. (By the way, George Clooney is a CFR member as well.) If we have, we might have been ready and able to try and counter the lies now. Since we haven’t begun establishing counter balance 15 years ago, we get Angelina Jolie strutting her “blood and honey” in front of our faces. It is hardly ever too late to start countering propaganda, but, honestly, it is getting later and later with every vitriolic attack that passes as an effort at defending human rights. And the Serbs haven’t progressed beyond the Milorad Vucelic information era.
Photosource: thenewamerican.com
