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The Shearers are also the kind of people Republican mugwumps despise most viscerally: privileged, socially and professionally ambitious dissenters whose liberal-left politics don't prevent them from enjoying the prerogatives of membership in the establishment.
Dissenters gripe about hackneyed dialogue, stock characters, and too much melodrama.
A few carp about the film's cloying, overt patriotism--and the avoidance of the politics and protests that surrounded the war--with the most vocal dissenters saying it "restart[s] the John Wayne-ing of Vietnam" (Michael Atkinson, the Village Voice ). For most, though, the stories, told by some 20 captured airmen, speak eloquently and powerfully.
Pat Buchanan ( The McLaughlin Group ) and George Will ( This Week ) were lonely dissenters, taking the view that warm relations with a hideous human-rights violator are not especially praiseworthy.
In Gates' essay, those who would favor a stand of principle over the ties of blut and boden (or even business)--whistle-blowers, antiwar dissenters, anyone who says "I often place my duty to society above my duty to my company"--are characterized as "William Godwin types all, letting their own dear mothers burn to a crisp with nary a second thought while they grandly escort some silk-bedizened cleric to safety."