Dirty War

No war is clean. There is no holy war. And most definitely no war in which one side is right and the other wrong, even if the war against terror.

World political landscape changed since 2001, first. Suicide attack the WTC collapse two make so many people shocked and condemn the Taliban / Al-Qaeda / terrorists who are behind this incident. Immediately rule America with George W. Bush declared war in the new millennium: the war against terror. The attack was carried out in Afghanistan, devastated porandakan states in their efforts to find, capture, and judge Osama Bin Laden. Not stopping there, the Americans pursue the war in Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime in the state. Strangely though Bin Laden was dihabisi in 2011 and the war against terror has also stopped growing and even all over the world.

What really happened?

Jeremy Scahill, an investigative journalist, is a dozen years covering American war since the last decade. They want to know what makes this crisis of the war against terror is not also endless. For guys who want to know what investigative journalists, they are not just journalists who report the news but also the pursuit of sources and dig the facts, including the facts of corruption that sometimes want to be buried with it. Scahill first find strange when viewing the details of the attack the night (night raid) is so ambiguous. From there he discovered the startling fact (scary?) That soldiers, American soldiers often raid villages to arrest people they suspect are involved with the Taliban / Al-Qaeda / terrorist groups. Sometimes without evident whether it connected or not, the people of Afghanistan that unfortunate dihabisi.

These findings make Scahill trying to dig deeper and find more facts tease conscience. That the American attack not just limited to the two countries of Afghanistan and Iraq alone but also extends into the range of countries that do not actually involved in the war in the beginning, such as Yemen and Somalia. This can be seen from both sides. On one hand, America would stop acts of terrorism before they happen (kill people who are potential terrorists) but the other side would not that make America a country so pretentious set policy? And one more thing: the hatred of many people in America who acts arbitrarily without willfully what Americans have created their own enemy?

Richard Rowley created this movie with Jeremy Scahill base composition book titled the same. Unique as the author of this book Jeremy Scahill also plunge into the narrator in this story. Salute to the courage of the crews in this movie because of what they do is something that is very dangerous. Scahill is not afraid to plunge filming in dangerous places where when there are errors, they can die. This threat is not just coming from a foreign land when they visit the site or follow the war with the African warlord, but also from the land of America. Obviously Rowley and Scahill were digging wrack unwanted by the government to repeatedly Scahill get threats from the mysterious.

Speaking of this movie done very well so I do not like to watch a documentary film but really are watching a thriller movie where the fate sang espionase indistinct figure will be safe or not (spoiler: Scahill certainly not dead!). Gray palette used by Rowley in the frame of this movie also passes mengamplifikasi dejected mood of this film. One of the most poignant irony worn by Scahill in explaining how dangerous strategy when America continues is a figure Anwar al-Awlaki. Figure Imam America is a controversial figure because of the early occurrence of the tragedy of 9/11 it is still a state of peace between Muslims and Americans. But with the rigors of the American action on behalf of Islam, al-Awlaki became resentful and finally become increasingly vocal against the Americans, something that could lead to the inclusion of its name in the list of terrorist fugitive Uncle Sam.

So my verdict is ... I really hope that the movie Dirty Wars is watched by more people. This documentary film is a film that could open the eyes of the tragedy behind Terroryang didengungkan War on America since more than a decade ago. Is America now precisely the terror that they want to fight first? Or terror would never end because while fighting a two anteknya America inadvertently sow the seeds for a new terror stooge?

Score: A-

Note: Confidential trusted movies like this and The Act of Killing failed to win Best Documentary from the Academy Awards last year's accomplishments. 20 Feet from themes like Stardom very clean and attains security which makes it the winner.