No End in Sight
I just watched No End in Sight tonight with Jodi. It left me wishing it was just a movie. I mean sure, it had evil villains, greed, explosions, murders, violence, over-the-top acting — but alas, it was sadly a very real documentary.
It is just utterly amazing (enraging/frightening) to me how badly the Iraq war has turned out, not just for the Iraqi people, but for the U.S. and the current (and future) Administration. This movie does a most excellent job of *not* covering the already hashed out “illegitimate reasons” for the war and instead just focuses on the hard facts that caused the U.S. to essentially lose Iraq the moment after we invaded. I wish the simple explanation was that we let a few men (and Condi) with little to no direct military experience, no real knowledge of the Arab world, and no direct experience in Iraq just continue to escalate under mismanagement and lack of leadership (they are the leadership), but it can’t be that simple. After watching this video of Dick Cheney circa 1994 talking about how invading Iraq would be a quagmire, there has to be something we Americans are just too dumb for those in the Administration to let us in on.
I remember thinking while watching it, that anyone currently thinking of public service or in public service really needs to see this movie. I know I’m just a whiny liberal, and now probably a traitor for using the words “lose” and war in the same sentence, but I really just can’t wrap my head around what possibly it is that the Administration knows and is “protecting” us Americans from.
America needs leadership who can actually lead instead of simply wanting to lead. We need leadership that rewards loyalty as equally as dissent. We have a serious problem on our hands, and the worst thing we can do is not learn from our mistakes and move forward.
Random Political Rant Over.
August 18th, 2007 12:16
amen