I was pleasantly surprised to see that John Le Carre, master spy novelist, seems to be against the war on terror. I got a recent movie based on his book "A Most Wanted Man" about an anti terrorist agent working in Hamburg. In the first act they are drooling over a new suspect, a Muslim man from Chechen who has come to Hamburg. I thought, oh, do I really want to watch this? I had chosen the movie because it starred Phillip Seymour Hoffman. But I watched and the plot did not go where I thought it would. The agent played by Hoffman is sympathetic, but tragically deceitful, manipulative, morally bankrupt and that is what the story is really about. In the DVD extras Le Carre himself says that the threat of terrorism is much exaggerated and we are losing our civil liberties. Cool!
