Today's War in Afghanistan Similarly as Insane

Rating: Null/10 (12 January 2002)

Col. Tommy Franks, sitting on his butt in Tampa, directing my son in Kabul, Afghanistan should be forced to see this movie. Cannon fodder and the difference between those who LEAD their troops and those who impersonally and idiotically order their men to death from afar, drinking cognac, are brilliantly displayed in this great movie.
Kirk Douglas has called this the greatest movie he was ever allowed to make, because the direction, screenplay, and writing are brilliant. It is realistic, in that the scapegoats are not miraculously saved at the last moment by a regretful Bush or whomever the arch tyrant is at the moment. As my son faces death in a war designed to preserve the oil interests of the millionaires in the Bush administration, I find this in a way refreshing as a reminder that chicanery at high places has always been so. And yet continues.
When will we ever learn? The 4th Reich will march on into other MidEast countries unless this madman, King George II is stopped. Let all our troops watch this movie before embarking, and we might have another emigration to Canada, a la that other madness, Vietnam.
Before you start waving the American flag, the last refuge of ruffians, see this movie and ask yourself, "What are the true motives behind ANY war?"