Oliver stone (born of a Jewish father and Catholic mother and raised Episcopalian) has since retracted most of his comments. The one point he did not retract, and which I believe is his central "issue" here, is the influence of the "Jewish Lobby" on U.S. foreign policy. Stone, like many, is not so much anti-jew as he is anti-Israel.

The anti-Israel position fits in very nicely with his leftist politics and continual focus on Western oppression/exploitation/etc. of non-whites. His movies have clearly depicted the U.S. as being mis-guided/criminally wrong in Vietnam, have suggested that the Kennedy assassination was an inside job favoring the military industrial complex, and has consistently atacked corporatism/capitalism as an evil.

As an aside, he has always seemed to me to be capable of creating films that were 85% wonderful. Unfortunately, he then writes a ham-fisted preachy ending to pound his point home -- apparently he has little confidence that we've been able to pick up the "lesson" he's already been depicting for 120 minutes. I mean, did any of you need the Sheen voice-over to tell you what Platoon meant? Or did you "somehow" manage to figure out Stone's "take" on Vietnam without it. Sheesh.