Woody Harrelson Stirs Up a Storm Over Gulf War
Regarding “War-Torn Woody,” Steve Weinstein’s profile of actor Woody Harrelson (Aug. 4):
Whether or not Weinstein’s reportage about Harrelson’s courageous stand against Operation Desert Storm has a hidden agenda is impossible to know.
But rest assured, when he chose to mention such irrelevancies as Harrelson’s American Indian tepee, crystals, a trip to Machu Picchu and “clapping and chanting anti-government slogans” (not “yelling”), he gave all the misguided patriots who continue to cheer our “victory” convenient reason to airily dismiss the actor’s valid arguments against our cynical exercise to “free Kuwait.”
Ours is not just a town where image is everything, as Weinstein wrote. Ours is a country where the same is painfully true.
BRUCE BELLAND
Encino
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