Do we have plans to invade the Middle East?

Do we have plans to invade the Middle East?

Film: "Three Days of the Condor" (1975)

Regie: Sydney Pollack

Rol principal: Robert Redford

In 2003 a avut loc un binecunoscut incident in Orientul Mijlociu...

Scena finala din film: o discutie intre un analist al agentiei , Turner (Robert Redford), care descoperise din intamplare anumite informatii secrete si directorul adjunct al agentiei , Higgins (Cliff Robertson).

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Turner: Do we have plans to invade the Middle East?
Higgins: Are you crazy?
Turner: Am I?
Higgins: Look, Turner…
Turner: Do we have plans?
Higgins: No. Absolutely not. We have games. That's all. We play games. What if? How many men? What would it take? Is there a cheaper way to destabilize a regime? That's what we're paid to do.
Turner: So Atwood just took the games too seriously. He was really going to do it, wasn't he?
Higgins: A renegade operation. Atwood knew 54/12 would never authorize it, not with the heat on the company.
Turner: What if there hadn't been any heat? Suppose I hadn't stumbled on their plan?
Higgins: Different ballgame. Fact is, there was nothing wrong with the plan. Oh, the plan was alright, the plan would've worked.
Turner: Boy, what is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
Higgins: No. It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In ten or fifteen years, food. Plutonium. And maybe even sooner. Now, what do you think the people are gonna want us to do then?
Turner: Ask Them. 

Not now — then! Ask 'em when they're running out.

Higgins: Not now — then! Ask 'em when they're running out. Ask 'em when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask 'em when their engines stop. Ask 'em when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You wanna know something? They won't want us to ask 'em. They'll just want us to get it for 'em!
Turner: Boy, have you found a home. There were seven people killed, Higgins.
Higgins: The company didn't order it.
Turner: Atwood did. Atwood did. And who the hell is Atwood? He's you. He's all you guys. Seven people killed, and you play fucking games!
Higgins: Right. And the other side does, too. That's why we can't let you stay outside.

[Turner and Higgins stop in front of The New York Times.]

Turner: They've got all of it.
Higgins: What? What did you do?

I told 'em a story. You play games; I told 'em a story.

Turner: I told 'em a story. You play games; I told 'em a story.
Higgins: Oh, you… you poor, dumb son of a bitch. You've done more damage than you know.
Turner: I hope so.

Higgins: You're about to be a very lonely man. It didn't have to end this way.

Turner: Of course it did.

… but how far if they don't print it?

Higgins: Hey Turner! How do you know they'll print it? You can take a walk… but how far if they don't print it?

 

Turner: They'll print it.
Higgins: How do you know?