This movie only works if you WANT to hate our own....

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Hard Truth,

I would have thought that your sig bears some relevance to your comments, although I will admit that is a bit of a cheap-shot.

I haven't seen this movie and am unable to comment on the contents, but the impression I get is that the war has been a mess and anyone who is genuinely interested in the welfare of their troops, or foreign policy, or human welfare, should allow people to play Devil's advocate (or vice versa depending on what side of the bench you come from). One example of that would this film.

There may well be people who want to believe that the entire army are murderous b*tards, but there are even more of us who believe that the army is a mix of people, many of whom are given the power to grant death based on snap decisions, without significant threat of reprisals. Many of these men are under-educated (many of course are very well educated too), and in any military where psychological screening is not intense some 'bad eggs' will find themselves aiming firearms at civilians.

Some of us find that observation deeply troubling, and are thankful for films like this. I understand why anyone who supports their military would not want to see them portrayed in the worst possible light, however as long as war is a necessary evil media like this may also be a necessary evil. It reminds the rest of us what war can really look like, and how decisions we make can put our troops and foreign civilians in harms way. Not fun, I know, but both sides of the story deserve a full and visceral airing.