Where's Hollywood in the War on Terror???

Well...totally absent, as this article by Michael Fumento demonstrates...

Consider, too, the conversion of Tom Clancy's best-selling 1991 book, The Sum of All Fears, in which a nuclear bomb destroys an American city, into the 2002 film of the same name. In the book and the original script, the bad guys were Islamist terrorists. Little did Mr. Clancy know how realistic his choices of villains were: U.S. federal court hearings in 2001 revealed that as early as 1993, Osama bin Laden offered US$1.4-million to buy uranium for a nuclear weapon. But ultimately, the Paramount movie depicted the bomber as yet another comic-book character villain, an Austrian neo-Nazi.

Mr. Clancy, who unfortunately had no control over the process, took a swipe at director Phil Alden Robinson on the special features section of the DVD. Mr. Robinson, for his part, made the incredible claim on the DVD extra that the change was in the name of realism. In reality, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) had lobbied to change the villains and won. "I hope you will be reassured that I have no intention of promoting negative images of Muslims or Arabs," Mr. Robinson wrote to them, "and I wish you the best in your continuing efforts to combat discrimination." Paramount's CEO at the time, Sherry Lansing, also suggested that she would steer clear of movies with Muslim villains.

Then there's this year's Jamie Foxx/Jennifer Garner action movie The Kingdom, in which Saudi terrorists blow up 200 American men, women and children. A small team of FBI agents are allowed into Saudi Arabia to catch the killers. The Saudi police torture an innocent man, and both Saudis and Americans turn bad guys into sieves. The film is a fairly straightforward action film with a bit of forensics tossed in ? until the last few seconds, that is. (Spoiler alert!) That's when we discover that the FBI agents, and America as a whole, are really no better than the terrorists. Both sides profess as their aim simply killing everybody on the other side.

Meanwhile, in Rendition, Ms. Witherspoon's husband is an Egyptian-born American and "dedicated family man" who is clearly innocent of any wrongdoing. U.S. authorities nonetheless snatch him from American soil and deliver him to a country where he's horrifically interrogated. The authorities deny any knowledge of the incident. They are liars and torturers-by-proxy.