Flying false flags: Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers is another attempt to rewrite history. It remakes American sacrifice and patriotism during WWII into vulgar excess and ignorance.(Movie review)

The beginning of the end was finally in sight. American forces had successfully island-hopped their way across the Pacific to the doorstep of Japan. Despite suicidal resistance by the Japanese, Tarawa had fallen to American forces in November 1943, in only four days. The American Army and Marine divisions held a growing naval and aviation advantage Emboldened by the successful amphibious assaults on Tarawa and Kwajalein, Admiral Nimitz ordered an assault on Eniwetok, one thousand miles to the west. A landing force of one Marine and one Army regiment seized the key anchorage and air base, depriving the enemy of another island possession. The Japanese fought hard, but the ...