
Rethink Afghanistan is a ground-breaking, full-length documentary focusing on the key issues surrounding the war. The film raises critical questions regarding Afghanistan. Segments of this documentary: Troops, Pakistan, Cost of War, Women of Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, Security and Solutions.... (Full plot summary below)
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Rethink Afghanistan is a ground-breaking, full-length documentary focusing on the key issues surrounding the war. The film raises critical questions regarding Afghanistan. Segments of this documentary: Troops, Pakistan, Cost of War, Women of Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, Security and Solutions.
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| User ReviewPhillip CA compelling and informative film from Robert Greenwald. Truly eye opening. |
| User ReviewLissy RShocking, scary, and gruesome at times but overall fascinatingly enlightening as it dives deep into the seemingly simple question of why the United States remains in Afghanistan. It sent me through a roller coaster of emotions, even one emotion I did not expect to have, hope. The film contains unique and sometimes disturbing footage from the streets of Afghanistan to its refugee camps but one can't deny the sincerity that overflows throughout. A must see. |
| User ReviewCarl CQuick overview of the situation in Afghanistan. If you know nothing, you should buy the dvd. The Afghani people are suffering more because of our presence there, not less. Obama should have rethought it. We should not be there, and there should certainly be no further troop build-up. I don't recall voting for BUSH last election. Will our economy suffer too much if we are not in a war?? I'd like to find out. Who benefits from these wars? Can you say corporate interests? HMMM.... Anyway, this doc is short and to the point. Gives an excellent/compelling case for LEAVING and doing so NOW! How many soldiers will we lose during the new surge, how many people in Afghanistan will lose everything in the violence? Sadly, I fear the losses will be apalling as usual. |
| User ReviewFrederick MA timely piece of agit-prop which urges an immediate rethink of established policy... Established documentarian Robert Greenwald (â??Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteersâ?? & â??Outfoxed: Rupert Murdochâ??s War on Journalismâ??) brings his polemic attacks on US administration policy into the Obama era with this six front attack on the new Presidentâ??s decision to continue and even escalate the war entered into by his predecessor. The six distinct parts cover such broad subject areas as the cost of the war, security and civilian casualties with the usual mix of talking-heads and archive footage with some particularly shocking revelations coming out on the status of Afghan women, the potential destabilisation of Pakistan and the futility of an Iraq style troop surge. Professors Robert Pape and Andrew Bacevich head up the battalion of experts which includes Brave New Films alumni Pratap Chatterjee of CorpWatch, as well as Robert Baer and Graham Fuller of the CIA, and a host of fascinating new comers including author Stephen Kinzer, retired Russian general Ruslan Aushev and prospective Afghan president Ramazan Bashardost. The reinvented television director wisely steers his impressive assemblage of experts away from the origins of the war in the dark days of the Bush regime to expose the continuing myths and misunderstandings which continue to drive the policy of the incoming administration to make more of the same mistakes in a region Al Qaeda has long since vacated. â??Rethink this very, very carefully.â?? |
| User ReviewGarrett OI like the premise: American is involved in a Civil War and we are only making things worse--just like Vietnam. That the film maker uses the usual hot buttons is an understatement. The Afghans are not nice and treat women like cattle--watch the father try and defend why he is selling his daughter. It is counter-productive to use emotional arguments when cold facts do the job. Great job of analysis without the need for the ad hominem. |
| User ReviewKristoffer SNot slightly, but heavily biased. Why not.. Awareness will not decrease. |