The United States has been engaged for more than 25 years in nearly continuous warfare, repeating all the crimes of the Vietnam intervention, with the addition of new and more technologically sophisticated means of mass murder -- drone-fired missiles, "smart" bombs, and the "mother of all bombs," recently dropped on Afghanistan, the largest explosive detonated since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In that context, the building of an antiwar movement, based on the independent mobilization of the working class, is the most urgent political task. Whatever the intentions of Burns and Novick, the evidence of imperialist atrocities and lies assembled in their film can help politically educate a new generation.
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