A timely piece which urges an immediate rethink...
a Rethink Afghanistan film review
Established documentarian Robert Greenwald (“Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers” & “Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism”) brings his polemic attacks on US administration policy into the Obama era with this six front attack on the new President’s decision to continue and even escalate the war in a region Al Qaeda has long since vacated.
The six distinct parts cover such broad subject areas as the cost of the war, security and civilian casualties with the usual mix of talking-heads and archive footage with some particularly shocking revelations coming out on the status of Afghan women, the potential destabilisation of Pakistan and the futility of an Iraq style troop surge.
Professors Robert Pape and Andrew Bacevich head up the battalion of experts which includes Brave New Films alumni Pratap Chatterjee of CorpWatch, as well as Robert Baer and Graham Fuller of the CIA, and a host of fascinating new comers including author Stephen Kinzer, retired Russian general Ruslan Aushev and prospective Afghan president Ramazan Bashardost.
The reinvented television director wisely steers his impressive assemblage of experts away from the origins of the war in the dark days of the Bush regime to expose the continuing myths and misunderstandings which continue to drive the policy of the incoming administration to make more of the same mistakes but the production’s episodic nature prevents a fully satisfying overview and analysis.
“Rethink this very, very carefully.”
The six distinct parts cover such broad subject areas as the cost of the war, security and civilian casualties with the usual mix of talking-heads and archive footage with some particularly shocking revelations coming out on the status of Afghan women, the potential destabilisation of Pakistan and the futility of an Iraq style troop surge.
Professors Robert Pape and Andrew Bacevich head up the battalion of experts which includes Brave New Films alumni Pratap Chatterjee of CorpWatch, as well as Robert Baer and Graham Fuller of the CIA, and a host of fascinating new comers including author Stephen Kinzer, retired Russian general Ruslan Aushev and prospective Afghan president Ramazan Bashardost.
The reinvented television director wisely steers his impressive assemblage of experts away from the origins of the war in the dark days of the Bush regime to expose the continuing myths and misunderstandings which continue to drive the policy of the incoming administration to make more of the same mistakes but the production’s episodic nature prevents a fully satisfying overview and analysis.
“Rethink this very, very carefully.”
