There certainly is a natural fatigue that creeps into our collective consciousness as the scandal, outrage and incompetence of the present administration washes over us each and every day. Sometimes it helps to go back to the beginning and to examine the feelings that we had at the moment that we embarked upon the current path. This video, one of a series that is easily found on youtube, looks at Shock and Awe, the imperial motivations that may or may not have led us into Iraq and Afghanistan, and the possible military consequences of the plan.
You can question the accuracy of the motivations that the filmmaker ascribes to the Bush administration, but I found it to be more interesting as a measure of my own feelings towards the invasion of Iraq at the time we began the bombing. I find, in retrospect, that my belief that this war was tightly analogous to Clinton's Bosnian campaign woefully naive.
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