"The Fog of War" and Iraq
I have seen “the Fog of War” before, and own a copy of my own. The format of the film really gives Robert Mnamera a chance to tell his side of history, and a controversial period of history at that. In some ways the documentary is enlightening on the process of reasonable people in the time of war. You can understand the judgments made at the time ( Read more... )
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and y'know what? i miss him.
he had a very pertinent vision, which i see as such: war is a business and a commodity that can be traded like stock prices, but a business without a game plan or a philosophy becomes anarchy. his engineering of parts of the vietnam war didn't all work out, but the parts that did ran as smooth as a well-lubricated machine.
compare and contrast: iraq and afghanistan, 2001-present. there is no empathy; there's not even good old fashioned american capitalism here. it's simple overthrow and theft. we took their pipelines like a jealous sibling grabbing the last cookie out of your hand. we clearly don't have a fucking clue what we're doing.
which is proof that our leaders aren't evil and coldly, logically conniving (like the esteemed mr. macnamara); far worse, they're just stupid. fuckkkkkking hell.
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