No End in Sight (Charles H. Ferguson 2007)
Posted on May 18 at 9.55, 2008 by Eric Mahleb
No End in Sight, a winner of several film prizes and on the top 10 lists of many critics in 2007, differentiates itself from the multitude of other documentaries that have come out over the past few years about the Iraq war in that it focuses on why things went wrong once the war started. It does offer the usual evidence that the war had been planned for a long time, at least on the surface, by the neo-cons and that 9/11 and Sadam were just convenient excuses to put this plan into action, but this accounts for only a small part of the documentary.
And what Charles H. Ferguson uncovers and exposes through this precise and meticulous documentary is that the mismanagement of the Iraq occupation is as enraging as are the reasons for going to war in the first place. The arrogance, selfishness and naïve overconfidence of a few key people in the Bush administration have led to one of the most grotesque and unjust travesty of our generation. Regardless of whether one believes in the merits of this war, after watching No End in Sight, it should be clear to anyone that Iraq would probably be a better place today had the Bush administration not acted like children entering a new playground.
No End in Sight is not an anti-war documentary. Although it provides plenty of ammunition to those already against Bush and the Iraq war, it also shows us that there were plenty of capable and well-intentioned people who went into Iraq hoping to make it a better place for the Iraqis. This is a fact that is often forgotten and this documentary reminds us that we must not too easily assume that anyone involved in the Iraq conflict must have by default shared the thinking of the Bush administration. Yet, it also proves once again that Bush and his cohorts are some of the most dangerous men in the world today and that many continue to have power over matters that can impact us all.
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2 Responses to “No End in Sight”
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W. - Cinema, Sci-Fi, Futurism, Technogaianism and other banalities by Eric Mahleb Says:
February 14, 2009 at 11.04[...] exposing his lies and deceit. I have posted several times before about excellent documentaries and filmmakers who have done their best to show the world the damage the Bush administration has done and theamount of corruption and illegal activities it has engaged in. But W. does little to expand on this great work. Instead of confronting the viewer with the brutal truth of Bush’s lies, idioticism and corruption, this fluffy romanticization attempts to be fair and to show Bush, as an idiot yes, but as an idiot who grew up in the shadow of his brother and who was constantly seeking the approval of a distant and critical father…. [...]
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Green Zone - Films and Documentaries about Sci-Fi, Futurism and Social & Environmental Issues Says:
July 28, 2010 at 11.54[...] the documentary No End in Sight (2007) explained very clearly (as have countless books and articles), one of the major mistakes the Bush [...]