Don't mistreat the Nazis!

Read a bizarre quote from actor-turned-director Peter Berg in Entertainment Weekly about his new film, "The Kingdom."
Berg heard major applause at the tail end of a test screening of the film, which details a military effort to squash a terrorist cell. Rather than count his blessings he cursed his good fortune.

''I was nervous it would be perceived as a jingoistic piece of propaganda, which I certainly didn't intend,'' says the actor- turned-director, hunched over an outdoor table at a shabby Santa Monica coffeehouse. ''I thought, 'Am I experiencing American bloodlust?'''

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Now, I understand if a director didn't want to make a gung-ho movie about the Iraq War. But I'm all for movies allowing audiences a measure of satisfaction as a gaggle of terrorists bites the dust (I'm assuming that's the theme of the sequence in question, but I haven't seen the film yet). Didn't the U.S. use Hollywood to rally the home front during World War II? Were we worried at the time if we were experiencing "American bloodlust" if we cheered as a U.S. actor took down a gaggle of Nazi soldiers? And you could argue said soldiers may have been just following orders, but today's terrorists are the epitome of evil. Can't we celebrate taking a few of them out in a Hollywood fiction without feeling a pang of guilt?

Is all propaganda created equal?