So many deluded fools in this world, I am amazed

Rating: 1/10 (25 November 2002)

First off: I am a white, middle class male from South-Africa. I find this piece of screen offal not only misleading, but blatantly offensive. Socio-Geo-political-economic concerns aside (and I could write a thesis on these issues alone), can a bloody, violent (but almost unnoticably brief, believe it or not) conflict like this from our recent past (and especially on a striken continent like Africa) really be seen as entertainment? THIS IS NOT ENTERTAINMENT, IT IS A GROSS MISREPRESETATION. It is nothing more than AMerican nationalist propaganda in the wake of the overwrought 9/11 travesty to be used as justification for American involvement in sensitive current world affairs. Here are a few unsettling macro facts; if anyone would like references, I can supply them, they are reliable, I am an honours university student: Since the end of World War 2, the United States government has provided more than 200 billion dollars worth of military aid to foreign governments, the purpose not being to protect them from outside aggression, but to secure American economic interests in those countries. The recipients of aid have been some of the most notorious miltiary dictatorships, autocratic regimes the world has ever seen. America is a rogue nation, like it or not.
It was certainly clever for the producers of this film to single out an event in East Africa: America clearly doesn't have any economic interests in this region. Why not read up on some other positively heinous examples of American foreign policy gone awry: there are many sources, and believe it or not they are not hard to find, they are not obscure, and are written by intellectuals from Oxford, Camridge and he like. Go and find the information yourself instead of sitting on your couch, passively imbibing codswollop like this awful film.
Why do so many people dislike America: is it because we are jealous of their astounding material wealth? Believe it or not, no. Shallow jealousy is not the issue.