An ambitious undertaking, but the results have been weak. What then is one to make of a film about the 1990-91 conflict described by its creator as “non-judgmental”-neither for nor against the war?īritish director Sam Mendes describes Jarhead as the third in his trilogy of American films. The world now knows that the earlier war was simply the first chapter in a far larger tragedy, which continues to play out in the streets and villages of Iraq. The ground war, an entirely one-sided affair, was the bloodiest four days witnessed since 1945 when the US incinerated hundreds of thousands of Japanese in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Its blitzkrieg against Iraqi forces was a crime of historic proportions. The US provoked the 1990-91 war to seize a strategic position in the oil-rich Persian Gulf. Involving all the great powers and numerous minor ones, the war marked the beginning of a drive to recolonize the oppressed countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Bush carried out the largest military mobilization since World War II, labeling it the start of a New World Order. In launching the Persian Gulf War, the administration of George H.W. Presenting the first war in an honest way would help disabuse the population about the current one. In light of the disastrous consequences of the American invasion and ongoing occupation of Iraq, a truthful film about the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991 could have a real value. Jarhead, directed by Sam Mendes, screenplay by William Broyles Jr., based on the book, Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford
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