Right out of the President Clinton playbook

Rating: 8/10 (29 April 2000)

I'm sure the whitehouse is not overly amused by this movie given how close it hits to home. Since Clinton took office in 1993 the US military has been turned into a global police force rather than an elite fighting force. That is not the role of a soldier, and many missions have gone bad (Somalia for example) where US soldiers have been killed. Needless to say the buck never reaches Clinton or anyone high up the food chain as some low level schmoe is forced to fall on his sword instead (for example - when the WH security office obtained over 900 FBI files on Republicans it was deemed a snafu, and no one could remember who hired Craig Livingstone despite sworn statements that Hillary Clinton did). This is just so typical - this movie fits the Clinton Admin's style to a T. It is no wonder the US military is losing its best in large qty. Who'd want to serve under these conditions?