The Longest War

Those words, used in the title, make a great fiction movie. But, when they're used in the dialog in which men and women on both "sides" have died and or are maimed for life and CONTINUE to do so; Those words are criminal. The one thing for sure, the tens of thousands of troops sent in harms way were not there to "protect our freedoms" or Kill/get Bin Laden ...No; It's murder and control of the third world and control of the resources, primarily Opium...

This is like a documentary made by Goebbels...Shame on you frauds! USAF vet.

A lot of the facts you would find else where, you get in the documentary. The story begins when the soviets leave, and ends with Afghanis blaming the US for not sticking around longer. Some information is more flushed out in this film, than something you would get from PBS. Which makes sense, PBS isn't going to go into detail on how intelligence officers were discussing how to mount Bin Laden's head on a pike and preserve it with dry ice.

One issue I do take, is this film acts as though enhanced interrogation worked. When Congress and the CIA both officially state there was zero actionable intel from torture, it didn't prevent any attack, and was wholly unnecessary. Not sure why the film doesn't even take a balanced approach. Or since they are contrary to all other claims about enhanced interrogation, they could have at least provided evidence of what attacks were prevented, thanks to what specific torture technique. But spooks gunna spook.

I write with a heavy heart. This is a very short and basic history lesson. The United States of America and Russia are the founding fathers of the "Taliban", "Al-Qaeda", "ISIS". Because the way Germany was treated after WW1, Germany rebelled and said screw you Allies for leaving us in poverty. So years pass, history repeats its self and WW2 starts with more years of death, annihilation and suffering of peoples. So humanity learnt from that and rebuilt the economy of Germany and Japan to economic global powers. And for some reason years later we've forgotten that. You can't go into a sovereign state, tear it apart and walk away. Shame on you Russia and U.S.A.

Wanted to see a movie which explained a bit about what happened in Afghanistan but it felt like Americans justifying their actions and showing how they were in the right to the point where one guy was justifying the torture of Afghan POWs. I have given it three stars because it's we shot and uses some good footage. But it's seriously so one sided.

I know what I'm talking about. I'm 70 and served in Vietnam. Sending American troops to the Middle East is every bit as stupid as sending them to Vietnam was. Trillions of dollars and many lives simply wasted. Vietnam gave us nothing and Iraq and Afghanistan will give us nothing except a reputation as wasteful idiots.

Getting Bin Laden was necessary but prosecuting a war accomplishes nothing. It only impoverishes us both financially and in reputation. I was drafted but today's troops are all volunteers so they have no one to blame but themselves. I would have never gone into the military during Vietnam if there was no draft. Even as a teenager I could see it was a pointless waste of American resources and a huge mistake. The Pentagon Papers proved me right, so did history.

I thought the documentary was very well done. We have to stop these politicians from taking us to war on little or no evidence of a quick and positive outcome.