I'm looking forward to
Team America: World Police.
Documentarywise, there's so many other movies that at least feel like they're argumented in a more sensible manner, e.g. Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent or Distorted Morality (which is more lecture than documentary), Orwell Rolls In His Grave etc.
In fact Moore appears in "Orwell..." and makes points which imho are of much more interest than a lot of the shock-value stuff he uses in his own documentaries, such as the current turnover rate of congress representatives being worse than those of Soviet Union party members...
Etsi mulle amerikkalainen, joka ei pohjimmiltaan ole ylpeä amerikkalaisuudesta, ja mä lupaan etsiä sulle valkoisen hirven.
the US of A is a exception to the rule "the smaller the country, the more patriotic its inhabitants". Without calling any names, perhaps you can think of some small countries that like to present their own flag at every opportunity.
Besides, I don't see what the point is anyhow, what's wrong with being proud of your home country? The only people who try not to be are Germans, and IMHO that's based on relatively recent historic events and how these events are treated in Western culture.
I lived in the south of the US for 5 years, and Americans have plenty to be proud of - their government is not one of those things, but you'll rarely hear an American shout "I'm proud to be represented by [xxx]" <- insert current political leader/party. You will hear "I'm proud to be an American" though, and plenty of it.
Besides, you can be sure that a large percentage of those Americans that do go to watch Fahrenheit are at least concerned with the current state of things, which is also my main critique point for Moore's work: he's preaching to the choir.
miksi huolestuttavaa?
This polarization of good vs. evil / christianity vs. islam currently being pushed by religious groups and conservative think tanks like
The Heritage Foundation is extremly worrying not only because of the historical background (the crusades, etc.) but also because such logic undermines any rational analysis of the situation, which usually comes to a different conclusion than just "let's bomb the hell out of them and install our own sponsored dictator". Somebody that is inherently evil can't be redeemed or reformed, which is a drastic difference to the traditional enemy role that the Soviets played during the Cold War; after all they were "just" followers of a different ideology and could theoretically be converted.