This documentary film, just one of many in the past few years covering the War in Iraq, presents the most thorough account of how the United States imprisoned itself into a quagmire war, with no possible way to come out ahead. The director, who also happens to be a political scientist and MIT scholar, Charles Ferguson, shows that the war will end up costing US some $ Trillion dollars in whole, and will fail to achieve any of its original goals....(outside of killing Hussein & co.) finding weapons of mass destruction, restoring freedom and democracy for the Iraqi people, and last but certainly not least, a peaceful and swift withdrawal of US presence in Iraq.
The film's structure is cold, hard informative documentary in the old school Ted Koppel form. Still, the storytellers' own accounts of what happened in Iraq, on the ground and at the Pentagon, from former and present US and Iraqi officials is extremely intriguing, and appalling at the same time. Those interviewees who still work under the Bush administration clearly have different, "can't completely remember the details," story versions of specific events.
While the film is not jazzed up with fast cuts, music, the humor of Michael Moore, nor stomach-jumping images of bloodshed, it keeps a steady flow that retains your attention, and it will deepen your understanding of why the US has seen only guerrilla war grow in Iraq, the need for troops increase, and why so many officials have been replaced in Iraq.
I highly recommend this film for everyone concerned with what problems our next US President will be inheriting. "No End In Sight" succeeds in using the in-depth and hardcore informative journalism technique that is so rare to find these days in the mainstream media. Support this film, stay educated on the issue, because as the film's title asserts, this quagmire isn't going away any time soon.
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