On the heels of a poll where everybody but the Israelis thinks Americans are crap (BBC "What the World Thinks of America", Pew Global Attitudes Project), Turkey's new blockbuster "Valley of the Wolves Iraq," opening tomorrow, portrays American soldiers as butchers:
"In the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother.

They kill dozens of innocent people with random machine gun fire, shoot the groom in the head, and drag those left alive to Abu Ghraib prison - where a Jewish doctor cuts out their organs, which he sells to rich people in New York, London and Tel Aviv."

Neat, huh?  Billy Zane stars as the lead, rogue American soldier, and Gary Busey as the Jewish-American doctor.  This, apparently, after the popularity of a fiction book published in Turkey, Metal Storm (nyt, aljazeera), which portrays a bloody war between the US and Turkey in 2007.

Talk about a failure of "hearts and minds" - and these are our allies.  Meanwhile, US tv audiences are glued forcefully to their navels (no offense to the "heros," you know who you are) with A&E's "Flight 93".