The Longest War

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.

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.

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.

The documentary takes a look at the USA's involvement in its longest war, Afghanistan. Contributors include US journalists, CIA, US combatants, Afghans who supported the "democratically" elected president. What it doesn't feature is a Taliban or Isis perspective on the US led war, surely an essential for any such documentary? It doesn't include the perspective of any of the US's allies. It doesn't include the perspective of any "neutral" Afghans. It does include much hand wringing & finger pointing from US personnel involved in the air, ground & governance of the war. This apparent arrogance in the documentary is neatly displayed when a news reporter describes how 1 American has been killed in a bomb attack & then almost as an afterthought mentions 10 Afghans were also killed. You get the feeling they have found the people they want to interview & have decided that's all they need without much thought for detail. Large time periods are ignored. At best, a very high level, one sided view of the US involvement in Afghanistan squashed into less then 90 minutes.

DVD lacked subtitles for the elderly, disabled, hearing impaired, and ESL viewers.

Taliban wants to enforce an extremely restricted form of Islam. You get the right to life, but you give up all other rights. An atmosphere of fear, oppression in which Sharia Law will be enforced.

Biden is abandoning the girls & women of Afghanistan to be valued as less than cattle (even slaughtered). In 2001 (Taliban ruling) 900,000 students in schools - number of girls, ZERO. If females try to be educated or have a job they are killed, even girls. If our military can not support the basic ideals that make up our country why have them?