Psyche, Science, and Society

Eight minutes show futility of US war

October 23rd, 2006

GuardianFilms and BBC Newsnight present a short [eight minute] film that clearly conveys the futility of the American occupatio in Iraq. It shows the relations between one American army division and the Iraqi Army (IA) and police who are supposed to replace them. THe IA throw hand grenades at the Americans and the police sit by while the Americans are attacked. It seems to never occur to these pooor American troops that they are hated because they are occupying another people’s country.

Here is the Guardian’s description:

Sean Smith, the Guardian’s award-winning war photographer, spent nearly six weeks with the 101st Division of the US army in Iraq. Watch his haunting observational film that explodes the myth around the claims that the Iraqis are preparing to take control of their own country.

Watch here.

Entry Filed under: Culture, Film, Iraq, Middle East, War and Peace