| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The film has been marketed as some sort of comedy (though it is not very funny), but Nichols's glib treatment of the conflict betrays the compelling moral question his movie tries unsuccessfully to raise in its abrupt coda: Did the human cause of the refugees justify covert intervention in the war, an action predicated on the disastrous assumption that the enemy of our enemy was indeed our friend?
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