Hilary Henkin Quotes
We’re not declaring war. We haven’t declared war since the Second World War. We’re going to war.
The line was delivered by Dustin Hoffman.
Hilary Henkin, Screen Writer, Film: Wag The Dog, 1997
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At the time the President denied that he had decided to invade Iraq. Skelton saw the “handwriting on the world.”
With a professionalized all volunteer military, most of whom came from just a few socio-economic strata of our society, wars at the time were fought and the risks and burdens borne by a small part of American society. The rest of society, unlike the Second World War did not experience any change in their style or standard of living.
King George did not want to give up the American Colonies and claimed the loss at Yorktown was just a loss of a single battle. The English soldiers had controlled New York, Charlestown and other places and American Tories wanted to fighting to continue. The French were having major problems elsewhere and the states were all broke from the war effort. Hamilton urged Clinton to offer all the New York offers and soldiers half pay tp be available to fight against the other ex-colonies represented in the Continental Congress.
Hilary Henkin is an American screenwriter and producer, nominated for both a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for her work on the screenplay of Wag the Dog in 1997.
