* The CIA regularly conducts operations that put surface-to-air missiles in the hands of Iranian terrorists, with no backup plan.
* Blue-eyed Egyptian terrorists who don’t speak Farsi often go to Tehran, without a translator, to pick up said surface-to-air missiles.
* The FBI regularly investigates whether the CIA has killed Iranian citizens in the course of said operations. Because, you know, they don’t have much else on their plate.
* The Middle East is full of Oxford and Georgetown-educated Arab princes who want to establish democracy and women’s rights. Because these princes – the epitome of what America wants to see in the region - won’t make deals with American oil companies, the CIA often sets out to kill them.
* When a CIA agent played by George Clooney threatens to murder the wife and child of the head of a law firm who opposes him, it’s the smooth menace of a tough guy hero in a tough guy world. When U.S. oil companies make bribes to Kazakistani officials to secure the rights to an oil field, it’s corruption so heinous that the audience is supposed to cringe. No scorn is left over for the Kazakistani officials who actually take the bribes.
* Hezbollah is an honorable neighborhood watch program that intervenes when the local thugs are torturing an American. Kind of like Spider-man with a turban.
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You know what's really sad? A lot of Americans who see this and don't know any better are going to think that the movie is factually accurate. I know, I know. It is just supposed to be a movie. I guess I just don't find inaccurate, anti-U.S. propaganda all that entertaining.
Call me a stickler, but if a movie is going to make claims about being realistic I expect that it be grounded in reality, not some leftist Hollywood version of reality.