The underlying story

Rating: 8/10 (5 November 2005)

Excellent movie/casting. But it's not a political, pro/anti-war movie. Its view of the Corps is amoral.
But it does appear to be making a judgment in the climactic scene at the airport tower.
The two major players aren't individuals, but rather the ground forces and air power--the latter being mostly off screen and which the movie apparently takes a dim view of, at least in that situation. The Gulf War was the first, and maybe last, war almost exclusively fought and won by air power.
The Iraq war has corrected that. And for those who believe these wars were for oil, why did we leave Iraq and Kuait then? Why aren't we taking the oil from Iraq now? Over the years, that's been one of the most absurd, knee jerk responses on the approved talking points list.