Total Anti-American/Religious Piece of P* (spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (25 December 2006)

First, I am not a total flag-waver, and I am not religious, but I do have more respect for these institutions than to think this is any kind of reasonable portrayal of either.
The more I think of what this movie intends the more it just seems like negative anti-American garbage. The movie was a total fantasy, advertised like it was some docu-drama about the CIA, when all it did was create a straw-man in the person of Matt Damon, who played Edward Wilson. This was not based on a true story ... except in the loosest of all possible ways ... yes, there is a CIA and yes there was a character similar the one De Niro played for 10 minutes, he was called Major General "Wild Bill Donovan". Damon's character is some dark fantasy compendium of negativity.
Wilson is peculiar, an East coast, Ivory Tower, Ivy League, psycho who is recruited by the FBI/CIA. This stereotype is certainly not a positive one, and not really a true one for the CIA. If they had wanted to show what the CIA was like there are many other stories to tell including possible the upcoming "Charlie Wilson's War".
There is room for all kinds of interpretations of the CIA, and lots of opinions and criticisms, but this movie is just about this false straw man and what a bad and ineffective guy he is. It plays on all the negative emotional connections in the audience, and to me seems like blatant anti-American propaganda. I am fine with people hating the CIA ... but if that is the agenda showing it this way is underhanded and reprehensible.
The other things is that there is a negative religious aspect on this movie ... so not only does it trash the intelligence service, it trashes religion, and country. "The Good Shepherd" for many people has a Christian connotation, especially during the holiday season. This was anything but a family movie. In fact while I was watching it partway into the movie a women walked out with her early teenage son having I supposed had enough.
To get a directorial debut I wonder if Robert De Niro sold his soul to Islamic oil money, knowingly or unknowingly. This was an ugly and disgusting movie, and deliberate timing ... right at Christmas the more I think about it had to have had some meaning, or thought behind it. After all they hold onto movies sometimes for years to release them at the right time, as in the recent movies about Turman Capote that were ready at the same time but released in sequence.
No, call me a conspiracy nut, but this was a foreign swipe, or a radical leftist attempt to rub the whole country's nose in America's mistakes and how bad the CIA and FBI are, and how inhuman the people who run the country are ... at least in the eyes of "someone".
The real story about the CIA and there must be many of them, is something I think a majority of Americans are interested in and would love to see. But something that is true, even a documentary, not this psycho-trash BS.