Friday, August 24, 2007

No End In Sight?

I have been reading a lot about the movie No End In Sight

It bills itself as a "jaw-dropping, insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003) as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, and prominent analysts".



It claims to "examine the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy – the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government, and the disbanding of the Iraqi military – largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. How did a group of men with little or no military experience, knowledge of the Arab world or personal experience in Iraq come to make such flagrantly debilitating decisions? NO END IN SIGHT dissects the people, issues and facts behind the Bush Administration’s decisions and their consequences on the ground to provide a powerful look into how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war".

I support the US Army (the best Army in the world, by the way) 100%. I am pleased, encouraged and gratified that the surge appears to be working in some quarters. That said I am becoming fairly disgusted with the current administration and their complete inability to prosecute this conflict successfully, specifically their putting our troops un-necessarily in harm's way.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Depressing - but true.