This is the second of the Oscar nominated documentaries that we have seen. And as much as I am fan of Micheal Moore's work, No End In Sight is a better film than Sicko.
The documentary is really a thriving film form, and while both films are excellent, the tone of No End seems less shrill and more scholarly, which lens it a power and less of an easy target for right wing bashers.
No End In Sight looks very closely at the consequences of most of the major decisions leading up to the Iraq was, and the decisions after the initial invasion that led to where we are. And it does it methodically and with a great deal of precision.
That is what lends it power, and it lends it the heartbreak of where we are now. With a quiet narration by Campbell Scott, it finds a surprising amount of in-siders who are willing to speak about the colossal blunders that have made this venture so terrible. And the blunders are epic in proportion. And any student of history will see these and wonder why did this administration ignore all previous experience on this sort of event, and just do what it wanted? The hubris is also epic, and very sad.
The funny thing is, Sharon and I, not really top students of military policy or country building policy, saw all this in 2002. And if we could see it, why didn't Mr. Cheney and Rumsfeld and Wolfewitz? That is the key question that needs to still be examined.
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